Two Polarities of Attention in Social Contexts: From Attending-to-Others to Attending-to-Self

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	Two Polarities of Attention in Social Contexts: From Attending-to-Others to Attending-to-Self
	Kuang, Shenbing
刊名	FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
	2016-02-01
卷号	7
关键词	social attention attending-to-others attending-to-self neural mechanism autism spectrum disorders Williams syndrome
ISSN号	1664-1078
英文摘要	Social attention is one special form of attention that involves the allocation of limited processing resources in a social context. Previous studies on social attention often regard how attention is directed toward socially relevant stimuli such as faces and gaze directions of other individuals. In contrast to attending-to-others, a different line of researches has shown that self-related information such as own face and name automatically captures attention and is preferentially processed comparing to other related information. These contrasting behavioral effects between attending-to-others and attending-to-self prompt me to consider a synthetic viewpoint for understanding social attention. I propose that social attention operates at two polarizing states: In one extreme, individual tends to attend to the self and prioritize self-related information over others', and, in the other extreme, attention is allocated to other individuals to infer their intentions and desires. Attending-to-self and attending-to-others mark the two ends of an otherwise continuum spectrum of social attention. For a given behavioral context, the mechanisms underlying these two polarities will interact and compete with each other in order to determine a saliency map of social attention that guides our behaviors. An imbalanced competition between these two behavioral and cognitive processes will cause cognitive disorders and neurological symptoms such as autism spectrum disorders and Williams syndrome. I have reviewed both behavioral and neural evidence that support the notion of polarized social attention, and have suggested several testable predictions to corroborate this integrative theory for understanding social attention.
WOS标题词	Social Sciences
类目[WOS]	Psychology, Multidisciplinary
研究领域[WOS]	Psychology
关键词[WOS]	FACE PERCEPTION ; EYE-TRACKING ; GAZE ; AUTISM ; COGNITION ; CORE ; RECOGNITION ; ADVANTAGE ; PRIORITY ; STIMULI
收录类别	SSCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000368981500001
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/19565]
专题	心理研究所_脑与认知科学国家重点实验室
作者单位	Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, State Key Lab Bran & Cognit Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kuang, Shenbing. Two Polarities of Attention in Social Contexts: From Attending-to-Others to Attending-to-Self[J]. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY,2016,7.
APA	Kuang, Shenbing.(2016).Two Polarities of Attention in Social Contexts: From Attending-to-Others to Attending-to-Self.FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY,7.
MLA	Kuang, Shenbing."Two Polarities of Attention in Social Contexts: From Attending-to-Others to Attending-to-Self".FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY 7(2016).