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

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00063

	Two Polarities of Attention in Social Contexts: From Attending-to-Others to Attending-to-Self
	Kuang, Shenbing
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.
关键词	social attention attending-to-others attending-to-self neural mechanism autism spectrum disorders Williams syndrome
	2016-02-01
语种	英语
DOI	10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00063
发表期刊	FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
ISSN	1664-1078
卷号	7
期刊论文类型	Editorial Material
收录类别	SSCI
WOS关键词	FACE PERCEPTION ; EYE-TRACKING ; GAZE ; AUTISM ; COGNITION ; CORE ; RECOGNITION ; ADVANTAGE ; PRIORITY ; STIMULI
WOS标题词	Social Sciences
WOS研究方向	Psychology
WOS类目	Psychology, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:000368981500001
资助机构	Scientific Foundation of Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(Y3CX112005)
引用统计	被引频次：10[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/19565
专题	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).

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