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That baby caught my eye... Attention capture by infant faces.
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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)
- Venue
- Emotion
- Published
- 2007-08
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 685-689
- ISSN
- 1528-3542 (ISSN-L)
- 1931-1516
- OpenAlex
- W2135468832
- Cited by
- 363
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- 34
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- FWCI
- 5.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- other-oa
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- 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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