The impact and mechanism of gaze cues on object-based attention

Chen, Yan; Gao, Yunfei; Hu, Sifan; Song, Fangxing; Wang, Yonghui; Zhao, Jingjing

doi:10.3724/sp.j.1041.2022.00748

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“…Firstly, monetary objects possess a multitude of physical attributes unrelated to rewards but may influence the OBA effect. Previous research has demonstrated that factors such as color, familiarity, long-term selection experience and the existence of a face [ 4 , 13 , 14 , 15 ] can influence OBA effects. Currency represents a complex object resulting from the integration of these attributes.…”

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The Impact of Reward Object on Object-Based Attention

Diao,

Hu,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Behavioral Sciences

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Reward has been shown to influence selective attention, yet previous research has primarily focused on rewards associated with specific locations or features, with limited investigation into the impact of a reward object on object-based attention (OBA). Therefore, it remains unclear whether objects previously associated with rewards affect OBA. To address this issue, we conducted two experiments using a paradigm that combined a reward training phase with a modified two-rectangle paradigm. The results indicate that a reward object modulates both space-based attention (SBA) and OBA. When cues appear on a reward object, the effects of both SBA and OBA are amplified compared to when cues appear on a no-reward object. This finding supports the value-driven attentional capture (VDAC) theory, which suggests that a reward object gain enhanced saliency to capture attention, thereby providing a theoretical support for the treatment of conditions such as drug addiction.

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The Impact of Reward Object on Object-Based Attention

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Zhang

et al. 2024

Behavioral Sciences

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“…Instead, it can be widely observed in different kinds of objects. For example, the OBA effect has been demonstrated with Gestalt-law-based objects (Marino & Scholl, 2005 ; Marrara & Moore, 2003 ), memory or imaginative objects (Ongchoco & Scholl, 2019 ; Xie et al, 2021 ), objects encoded with social or semantic information (Li & Logan, 2008 ; Yin et al, 2018 ), and objects in real-world scenes (Malcolm & Shomstein, 2015 ). This wealth of evidence suggests that attention can be guided by various objects.…”

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“…Since the OBA effect has been widely replicated in real-world objects (e.g., Malcolm & Shomstein, 2015 ; Zhao et al, 2020 ), as a kind of real-world object featuring general object properties, faces are justified in eliciting the OBA effect (Hu et al, 2021 ; Song et al, 2021 ). From a more basic perspective, Yan et al ( 2022 ) suggested that faces containing direct eye gaze would capture attention and result in faster RTs in the within condition, which leads to the OBA effect in faces (Yan et al, 2022 ).…”

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Faces do not guide attention in an object-based facilitation manner

Xie

Mento

2023

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Numerous studies on face processing have revealed their special ability to affect attention, but relatively little research has been done on how faces guide spatial attention allocation. To enrich this field, this study resorted to the object-based attention (OBA) effect in a modified double-rectangle paradigm where the rectangles were replaced with human faces and mosaic patterns (non-face objects). Experiment 1 replicated the typical OBA effect in the non-face objects, but this effect was absent in Asian and Caucasian faces. Experiment 2 removed the eye region from Asian faces, but still found no object-based facilitation in the faces without eyes. In Experiment 3, the OBA effect was also observed for faces when the faces disappear a short period before the responses. Overall, these results revealed that when two faces are presented together, they do not exert object-based facilitation regardless of their facial features such as race and the presence of eyes. We argue that the lack of a typical OBA effect is due to the filtering cost induced by the entire face content. This cost slows down the response when attention shifts within a face and results in the absence of object-based facilitation.

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The impact and mechanism of gaze cues on object-based attention

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The Impact of Reward Object on Object-Based Attention

The Impact of Reward Object on Object-Based Attention

Faces do not guide attention in an object-based facilitation manner

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