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Attractive faces temporally modulate visual attention

Facial attractiveness is an important biological and social signal on social interaction. Recent research has demonstrated that an attractive face captures greater spatial attention than an unattractive face does. Little is known, however, about the temporal characteristics of visual attention for f...

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Autores principales: Nakamura, Koyo, Kawabata, Hideaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4061897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24994994
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00620
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description Facial attractiveness is an important biological and social signal on social interaction. Recent research has demonstrated that an attractive face captures greater spatial attention than an unattractive face does. Little is known, however, about the temporal characteristics of visual attention for facial attractiveness. In this study, we investigated the temporal modulation of visual attention induced by facial attractiveness by using a rapid serial visual presentation. Fourteen male faces and two female faces were successively presented for 160 ms, respectively, and participants were asked to identify two female faces embedded among a series of multiple male distractor faces. Identification of a second female target (T2) was impaired when a first target (T1) was attractive compared to neutral or unattractive faces, at 320 ms stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA); identification was improved when T1 was attractive compared to unattractive faces at 640 ms SOA. These findings suggest that the spontaneous appraisal of facial attractiveness modulates temporal attention.
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spelling pubmed-40618972014-07-03 Attractive faces temporally modulate visual attention Nakamura, Koyo Kawabata, Hideaki Front Psychol Psychology Facial attractiveness is an important biological and social signal on social interaction. Recent research has demonstrated that an attractive face captures greater spatial attention than an unattractive face does. Little is known, however, about the temporal characteristics of visual attention for facial attractiveness. In this study, we investigated the temporal modulation of visual attention induced by facial attractiveness by using a rapid serial visual presentation. Fourteen male faces and two female faces were successively presented for 160 ms, respectively, and participants were asked to identify two female faces embedded among a series of multiple male distractor faces. Identification of a second female target (T2) was impaired when a first target (T1) was attractive compared to neutral or unattractive faces, at 320 ms stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA); identification was improved when T1 was attractive compared to unattractive faces at 640 ms SOA. These findings suggest that the spontaneous appraisal of facial attractiveness modulates temporal attention. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4061897/ /pubmed/24994994 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00620 Text en Copyright © 2014 Nakamura and Kawabata. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Attractive faces temporally modulate visual attention
title Attractive faces temporally modulate visual attention
title_full Attractive faces temporally modulate visual attention
title_fullStr Attractive faces temporally modulate visual attention
title_full_unstemmed Attractive faces temporally modulate visual attention
title_short Attractive faces temporally modulate visual attention
title_sort attractive faces temporally modulate visual attention
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4061897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24994994
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00620
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