Visuospatial perception is not affected by self-related information

Antonia F Ten Brink; Rebecca de Haan; Daan R Amelink; Anniek N Holweg; Jie Sui; Janet H Bultitude

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2022.103451

Visuospatial perception is not affected by self-related information

Antonia F Ten Brink^* (Corresponding Author), Rebecca de Haan, Daan R Amelink, Anniek N Holweg, Jie Sui, Janet H Bultitude

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Abstract

Previous research suggests that attention is drawn by self-related information. Three online experiments were conducted to investigate whether self-related stimuli alter visuospatial perceptual judgments. In a matching task, associations were learned between labels ('Yourself'/friend/stranger's name) paired with cues. Cues were coloured outlines (Experiment 1, N = 135), geometric shapes (Experiment 2, N = 102), or coloured gradients (Experiment 3, N = 110). Visuospatial perception bias was measured with a greyscales task. Cues were presented prior to, and/or alongside greyscales. We hypothesized there would be a bias towards the self-related cue. In all experiments, we found a self-related bias in the matching task. Furthermore, there was an overall leftward visuospatial perceptual bias (pseudoneglect). However, we found anecdotal to moderate evidence for the absence of an effect of self-related cues on visuospatial perception judgments. Although self-related stimuli influence how our attention is oriented to stimuli, attention mechanisms that influence perceptual judgements are seemingly not affected by a self-bias.

Original language	English
Article number	103451
Number of pages	16
Journal	Consciousness and Cognition
Volume	107
Early online date	21 Jan 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2022.103451
Publication status	Published - Jan 2023

Bibliographical note

The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Antonia F. ten Brink was supported by a Rubicon grant (019.173SG.019) from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The funder had no role in study design, analysis, and interpretation of data, writing the report, and the decision to submit the article for publication.

CRediT authorship contribution statement
Antonia F. Ten Brink: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing, Supervision. Rebecca de Haan: Methodology, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft. Daan R. Amelink: Methodology, Investigation, Writing – review & editing. Anniek N. Holweg: Methodology, Investigation, Writing – review & editing. Jie Sui: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing. Janet H. Bultitude: Conceptualization, Methodology, Investigation, Writing – review & editing, Supervision.

Data Availability Statement

We have shared the link to our data at the results section

Keywords

Humans
Visual Perception
Functional Laterality
Photic Stimulation
Space Perception
Learning

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Visuospatial perception is not affected by self-related information

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