The Fragility of Social Attention Part Trois
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Wonderful research news to start the year, with Chapter 3 of my dissertation being published in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics! In this chapter, I further probed whether the external factor of frequency may be responsible in preferential and spontaneous attentional biasing towards faces and eyes. We found our prior trend of dissociations between overtly looking at faces with our eyes and covertly attending to them with our mind’s eye, but we also specifically found that face novelty promotes more spontaneous biasing towards the eyes of infrequently presented faces!