The Behavioral Relation of Classification and Attention for the perception of social stimuli

Nour Eldeen Mohamed Abdelrheem, Tarik

doi:10.21608/edusohag.2012.128667

The Behavioral Relation of Classification and Attention for the perception of social stimuli

نوع المستند : المقالة الأصلية

المؤلف

Tarik Nour Eldeen Mohamed Abdelrheem

Department of Psychology, University of Sohag, Egypt

10.21608/edusohag.2012.128667

المستخلص

In three Experiments, I used a modified visual search paradigm, to
examine whether the red color singleton play any role in the perception of
social stimuli such as faces, and body parts, and if both of them can
capture attention, and differentiate between Active (i.e. hand & leg), and
passive parts (torso). In the first experiment I presented either faces or
body parts together with five different objects, but in the other
experiments I presented active or passive parts with the same objects.
Participants decided whether a randomly chosen target (surrounded by a
green frame) belonged to a previously presented category. In half of the
trials, an additional red frame surrounded a non-target singleton object
was appeared. Consistent with earlier studies, participants responded
faster to both face and body parts targets than to others, when faces or
body parts appeared as singletons, they attracted attention and increased
reaction times more than other objects, These results indicate greater
attention capture by faces, and add evidence for similar mechanism for
passive parts of the body parts.

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