Fondevila Sabela, Hernández-Gutiérrez David, Espuny Javier, Jimenez-Ortega Laura, Casado Pilar, Muñoz Francisco Muñoz, Sánchez-García José, Martín-Loeches Manuel
Center UCM-ISCIII for Human Evolution and Behavior, Madrid, Spain.
Departamento de Psicobiología y Metodología en Ciencias del Comportamiento, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2022 Jul 7;16:862359. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.862359. eCollection 2022.
Evidence so far shows that status detection increases attentional resources, especially for high hierarchies. However, little is known about the effects of masked social status cues on cognition. Here, we explore the masked priming effects of social status cues during a categorization task. For this purpose, we use Event-Related brain Potentials (ERP) time-locked to the presentation of two types of artworks (Christian, non-Christian) primed by masked social hierarchies sorted into two types (religious, military), and in two ranks (high, low) each. ERP results indicate early attention effects at N1, showing larger amplitudes for the processing of artworks after high and military ranks. Thereafter, the P3a increased for all artworks primed by religious vs. military figures, indicating a relevant role of task demands at this processing stage. Our results remark the automaticity of hierarchy detection and extend previous findings on the effects of social status cues on complex cognitive processes.
迄今为止的证据表明，地位检测会增加注意力资源，尤其是对于高等级地位而言。然而，关于被掩盖的社会地位线索对认知的影响，我们却知之甚少。在此，我们探讨了在分类任务中社会地位线索的掩蔽启动效应。为此，我们使用与两种类型的艺术品（基督教的、非基督教的）呈现时间锁定的事件相关脑电位（ERP），这两种艺术品由被掩盖的社会等级启动，社会等级分为两种类型（宗教的､军事的），且每种类型又分为两个等级（高、低）。ERP结果表明在N1出现早期注意效应，即对于高等级和军事等级启动后的艺术品加工，N1波幅更大。此后，对于所有由宗教人物与军事人物启动的艺术品，P3a波幅增加，表明在此加工阶段任务需求发挥了相关作用。我们的研究结果表明等级检测具有自动性，并扩展了先前关于社会地位线索对复杂认知过程影响的研究发现。
