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Task‐irrelevant own‐race faces capture attention: Eye‐tracking evidence
Author(s) -
CAO RONG,
WANG SHUZHEN,
RAO CONGQUAN,
FU JIA
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/sjop.12027
Subject(s) - saccade , psychology , eye movement , race (biology) , inhibition of return , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , eye tracking , visual attention , cognition , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , computer science , botany , management , economics , biology
To investigate attentional capture by face’s race, the current study recorded saccade latencies of eye movement measurements in an inhibition of return (IOR) task. Compared to Caucasian (other‐race) faces, Chinese (own‐race) faces elicited longer saccade latency. This phenomenon disappeared when faces were inverted. The results indicated that own‐race faces capture attention automatically with high‐level configural processing.