Neumann, Markus F. and Viska, Charles G. and van Huis, Sascha and Palermo, Romina (2018) Similar distraction, but differential suppression, for faces and non-face objects: Evidence from behaviour and event-related potentials. Biological Psychology, 139, pp. 39-46. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.09.011. ISSN 0301-0511.
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Abstract
In everyday life we constantly experience distractions. Some distractors might be more distracting than others, for example the human face, which has been shown to be very efficient in attracting attention. Here, we employed the irrelevant-distractor paradigm (Forster & Lavie, 2016) to measure behavioural and neural distraction by completely irrelevant faces or non-faces (cars), while participants performed a letter search task that was more (high-load) or less (low-load) demanding. Under low load conditions, faces and cars equally slowed responses on trials with distractors as compared to those without. In high load conditions, neither faces nor cars were distracting. However, event-related potentials revealed larger face-sensitive N170 responses to faces than cars under both load conditions, suggesting that early face-specific processing is present even under high load. A subsequent Pd modulation between 200 and 300 ms contralateral to the distractor position, which has been linked to the active top-down suppression of lateral distractors (Hickey et al., 2009) was stronger for faces compared to cars. Overall, the EEG data indicate early face-specific processes to irrelevant faces irrespective of attentional load, coupled with stronger top-down suppression for faces. Together, these processes might reduce the influence of irrelevant face distractors on behavioural performance.
Item URL in elib: | https://elib.dlr.de/128740/ | |||||||||||||||
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Document Type: | Article | |||||||||||||||
Title: | Similar distraction, but differential suppression, for faces and non-face objects: Evidence from behaviour and event-related potentials | |||||||||||||||
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Date: | 4 October 2018 | |||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Biological Psychology | |||||||||||||||
Refereed publication: | Yes | |||||||||||||||
Open Access: | No | |||||||||||||||
Gold Open Access: | No | |||||||||||||||
In SCOPUS: | Yes | |||||||||||||||
In ISI Web of Science: | Yes | |||||||||||||||
Volume: | 139 | |||||||||||||||
DOI : | 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.09.011 | |||||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 39-46 | |||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | |||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 0301-0511 | |||||||||||||||
Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||
Keywords: | Attention, face perception, event-related potentials, distraction, Pd, N170 | |||||||||||||||
HGF - Research field: | Aeronautics, Space and Transport | |||||||||||||||
HGF - Program: | Aeronautics | |||||||||||||||
HGF - Program Themes: | air traffic management and operations | |||||||||||||||
DLR - Research area: | Aeronautics | |||||||||||||||
DLR - Program: | L AO - Air Traffic Management and Operation | |||||||||||||||
DLR - Research theme (Project): | L - Human factors and safety in Aeronautics (old) | |||||||||||||||
Location: | Hamburg | |||||||||||||||
Institutes and Institutions: | Institute of Aerospace Medicine > Aviation and Space Psychology | |||||||||||||||
Deposited By: | Neumann, Markus | |||||||||||||||
Deposited On: | 12 Sep 2019 09:15 | |||||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 12 Sep 2019 09:15 |
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