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Self-related stimuli capture attention but do not alter visuospatial perception judgments. While participants showed a bias towards self-related cues in a matching task, this self-bias did not influence their perceptual judgments in a greyscales task.

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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Self-related information typically captures attention.
  • Previous research indicates attentional biases towards self-relevant stimuli.
  • The impact of self-related cues on visuospatial perception remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if self-related stimuli influence visuospatial perceptual judgments.
  • To examine the effect of learned associations between self-related labels and visual cues on perception.
  • To determine if self-bias in attention extends to perceptual decision-making.

Main Methods:

  • Three online experiments (N=135, 102, 110) used a matching task to associate labels (Yourself, friend, stranger) with visual cues (coloured outlines, shapes, gradients).
  • Visuospatial perception was assessed using a greyscales task, with cues presented before and/or alongside stimuli.
  • Hypothesized a bias towards self-related cues in perceptual judgments.

Main Results:

  • A self-related bias was consistently found in the matching task across all experiments.
  • An overall leftward visuospatial perceptual bias (pseudoneglect) was observed.
  • Anecdotal to moderate evidence suggested no effect of self-related cues on visuospatial perception judgments.

Conclusions:

  • Self-related stimuli effectively orient attention but do not appear to modulate underlying visuospatial perceptual judgments.
  • Attention mechanisms influencing perceptual decisions may be independent of self-bias.
  • Findings suggest a dissociation between attentional capture by self-relevance and its effect on perceptual processing.