Sui Jie, Liu Chang Hong, Wang Lingyun, Han Shihui
Department of Psychology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, People's Republic of China.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2009 May;62(5):844-9. doi: 10.1080/17470210802559393. Epub 2009 Jan 8.
Self-referential stimuli such as self-face surpass other-referential stimuli in capture of attention, which has been attributed to attractive perceptual features of self-referential stimuli. We investigated whether temporarily established self-referential stimuli are different from other-referential cues in guiding voluntary visual attention. Temporarily established self-referential or friend-referential shapes served as central cues in Posner's endogenous cueing task. We found that, relative to friend-referential cues, self-referential cues induced smaller cueing effect (i.e., the difference in reaction times to targets at cued and uncued locations) when the interstimulus interval was short but larger cueing effect when the interstimulus interval was long. Our findings suggest that temporarily established self-referential cues are more efficient to capture reflexive attention at the early stage of perceptual processing and to shift voluntary attention at the later stage of perceptual processing.
诸如自我面孔等自我参照刺激在吸引注意力方面超过他人参照刺激，这归因于自我参照刺激具有吸引人的感知特征。我们研究了临时建立的自我参照刺激在引导自愿视觉注意方面是否与他人参照线索不同。在波斯纳内源性线索任务中，临时建立的自我参照或朋友参照形状作为中央线索。我们发现，相对于朋友参照线索，当刺激间隔短时，自我参照线索诱发的线索效应较小（即对线索化位置和非线索化位置的目标的反应时间差异），而当刺激间隔长时，线索效应较大。我们的研究结果表明，临时建立的自我参照线索在感知处理的早期阶段更有效地捕获反射性注意，在感知处理的后期阶段更有效地转移自愿注意。
