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That baby caught my eye... Attention capture by infant faces.

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Brosch, Tobias, Sander, David, Scherer, Klaus R.·2007·Emotion

DOI 10.1037/1528-3542.7.3.685

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An alternative to the view that during evolution the human brain became specialized to preferentially attend to threat-related stimuli is to assume that all classes of stimuli that have high biological significance are prioritized by the attention system. Newborns are highly biologically relevant stimuli for members of a species, as their survival is important for reproductive success. The authors examined whether the Kindchenschema (baby schema) as described by Lorenz (1943) captures attention in the dot probe task. The results confirm attentional capture by photos of human infants presented to the left visual field, suggesting right hemisphere advantage. The magnitude of the attentional modulation was highly correlated with subjective arousal ratings of the photos. The findings show that biologically significant positive stimuli are prioritized by the attention system.

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Authors: Brosch, T., Sander, D., & Scherer, K. R.
Affiliations: University of Geneva (CH)
ORCID: Brosch, Tobias
Sander, David
Scherer, Klaus R.
Venue: Emotion
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: 2007-08
Volume: 7
Issue: 3
Pages: 685-689
ISSN: 1528-3542 (ISSN-L)
1931-1516
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.3.685
OpenAlex: W2135468832
Cited by: 363
References: 34
Citations by year: 2026: 6 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 37 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 35 · 2015: 22 · 2014: 16 · 2013: 21 · 2012: 16
FWCI: 5.00
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
archive-ouverte.unige.ch
Licence: other-oa
Locations: Emotion (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders: Swiss National Science Foundation
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
Keywords: attentional capture, infant faces, neonates, dot-probe task, right hemisphere advantage, subjective arousal, biological significance, threat-related attention, visual attention
MeSH terms: Adult, Affect, Attention, Face, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Infant, Male, Reaction Time, Social Perception

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