Wilson Christopher J, Soranzo Alessandro, Bertamini Marco
School of Social Sciences, Business and Law, Teesside University, United Kingdom.
Faculty of Development and Society, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2017 Jul;178:56-65. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.05.010. Epub 2017 Jun 1.
Spatial cueing of attention occurs when attention is oriented by the onset of a stimulus or by other information that creates a bias towards a particular location. The presence of a cue that orients attention can also interfere with participants' reporting of what they see. It has been suggested that this type of interference is stronger in the presence of socially-relevant cues, such as human faces or avatars, and is therefore indicative of a specialised role for perspective calculation within the social domain. However, there is also evidence that the effect is a domain-general form of processing that is elicited equally with non-social directional cues. The current paper comprises four experiments that systematically manipulated the social factors believed necessary to elicit the effect. The results show that interference persists when all social components are removed, and that visual processes are sufficient to explain this type of interference, thus supporting a domain-general perceptual interpretation of interference.
当注意力通过刺激的出现或其他对特定位置产生偏向的信息而被定向时，就会发生空间注意提示。引导注意力的提示的存在也可能干扰参与者对他们所看到内容的报告。有人提出，在存在与社会相关的提示（如人脸或化身）时，这种干扰会更强，因此表明在社会领域中视角计算具有特殊作用。然而，也有证据表明，这种效应是一种通用的加工形式，在非社会方向提示下同样会引发。本文包含四个实验，这些实验系统地操纵了被认为引发该效应所需的社会因素。结果表明，当所有社会成分都被去除时，干扰仍然存在，并且视觉过程足以解释这种干扰类型，从而支持了对干扰的通用感知解释。
