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Self-Orientation Modulates the Neural Correlates of Global and Local Processing
Differences in self-orientation (or “self-construal”) may affect how the visual environment is attended, but the neural and cultural mechanisms that drive this remain unclear. Behavioral studies have demonstrated that people from Western backgrounds with predominant individualistic values are percep...
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2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4536227/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26270820 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135453 |
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author | Liddell, Belinda J. Das, Pritha Battaglini, Eva Malhi, Gin S. Felmingham, Kim L. Whitford, Thomas J. Bryant, Richard A. |
author_facet | Liddell, Belinda J. Das, Pritha Battaglini, Eva Malhi, Gin S. Felmingham, Kim L. Whitford, Thomas J. Bryant, Richard A. |
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description | Differences in self-orientation (or “self-construal”) may affect how the visual environment is attended, but the neural and cultural mechanisms that drive this remain unclear. Behavioral studies have demonstrated that people from Western backgrounds with predominant individualistic values are perceptually biased towards local-level information; whereas people from non-Western backgrounds that support collectivist values are preferentially focused on contextual and global-level information. In this study, we compared two groups differing in predominant individualistic (N = 15) vs collectivistic (N = 15) self-orientation. Participants completed a global/local perceptual conflict task whilst undergoing functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scanning. When participants high in individualistic values attended to the global level (ignoring the local level), greater activity was observed in the frontoparietal and cingulo-opercular networks that underpin attentional control, compared to the match (congruent) baseline. Participants high in collectivistic values activated similar attentional control networks o only when directly compared with global processing. This suggests that global interference was stronger than local interference in the conflict task in the collectivistic group. Both groups showed increased activity in dorsolateral prefrontal regions involved in resolving perceptual conflict during heightened distractor interference. The findings suggest that self-orientation may play an important role in driving attention networks to facilitate interaction with the visual environment. |
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spelling | pubmed-45362272015-08-20 Self-Orientation Modulates the Neural Correlates of Global and Local Processing Liddell, Belinda J. Das, Pritha Battaglini, Eva Malhi, Gin S. Felmingham, Kim L. Whitford, Thomas J. Bryant, Richard A. PLoS One Research Article Differences in self-orientation (or “self-construal”) may affect how the visual environment is attended, but the neural and cultural mechanisms that drive this remain unclear. Behavioral studies have demonstrated that people from Western backgrounds with predominant individualistic values are perceptually biased towards local-level information; whereas people from non-Western backgrounds that support collectivist values are preferentially focused on contextual and global-level information. In this study, we compared two groups differing in predominant individualistic (N = 15) vs collectivistic (N = 15) self-orientation. Participants completed a global/local perceptual conflict task whilst undergoing functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scanning. When participants high in individualistic values attended to the global level (ignoring the local level), greater activity was observed in the frontoparietal and cingulo-opercular networks that underpin attentional control, compared to the match (congruent) baseline. Participants high in collectivistic values activated similar attentional control networks o only when directly compared with global processing. This suggests that global interference was stronger than local interference in the conflict task in the collectivistic group. Both groups showed increased activity in dorsolateral prefrontal regions involved in resolving perceptual conflict during heightened distractor interference. The findings suggest that self-orientation may play an important role in driving attention networks to facilitate interaction with the visual environment. Public Library of Science 2015-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4536227/ /pubmed/26270820 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135453 Text en © 2015 Liddell et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Liddell, Belinda J. Das, Pritha Battaglini, Eva Malhi, Gin S. Felmingham, Kim L. Whitford, Thomas J. Bryant, Richard A. Self-Orientation Modulates the Neural Correlates of Global and Local Processing |
title | Self-Orientation Modulates the Neural Correlates of Global and Local Processing |
title_full | Self-Orientation Modulates the Neural Correlates of Global and Local Processing |
title_fullStr | Self-Orientation Modulates the Neural Correlates of Global and Local Processing |
title_full_unstemmed | Self-Orientation Modulates the Neural Correlates of Global and Local Processing |
title_short | Self-Orientation Modulates the Neural Correlates of Global and Local Processing |
title_sort | self-orientation modulates the neural correlates of global and local processing |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4536227/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26270820 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135453 |
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