{"pk":30025,"title":"Self-reference effect for faces is mediated by attention","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Self is a central construct for various phenomenon in the history of psychology, and the pattern of being biased towardsthe information related to self is known as self-reference effect. Ones own face presents a unique stimuli to look at thecognitive processing self-reference effect. With help of two experiments, we investigated self-referential effect for facesand its relationship with attention. The first experiment looked at processing advantage for self-face compared to friendsface and a strangers face while participants performed orthogonal task of emotion perception. The second experimentinvolved manipulation of attention prior to emotion perception task used in experiment 1. Results indicate that RT forself-face were significantly shorter compared to friend face and stranger face. This processing advantage disappearedwhen cues were used prior to the attention task. We suggest that self-faces enhance processing by attentional capture.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Session 3","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/55v6b1zh","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Aditi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Jublie","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur","department":""},{"first_name":"Devpriya","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kumar","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30025/galley/19879/download/"}]}