A global attentional scope setting prioritizes faces for conscious detection

Sun, Sol Z.; Cant, Jonathan S.; Ferber, Susanne

doi:10.1167/16.6.9

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“…Experiment 2 showed that the cultural bias could be modulated by temporarily adapting to a more global or local processing orientation. The momentary alteration between global and local processing orientation may reflect the effects of variable attentional scope (Sun et al, 2016). A stimulus set is usually treated as a whole rather than individual items when the set average is estimated.…”

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Culture variation in the average identity extraction: The role of global vs. local processing orientation

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Research has shown that observers often spontaneously extract a mean representation from multiple faces/objects in a scene even when this is not required by the task. This phenomenon, now known as ensemble coding, has so far mainly been based on data from Western populations. This study compared East Asian and Western participants in an implicit ensemble-coding task, where the explicit task was to judge whether a test face was present in a briefly exposed set of faces. Although both groups showed a tendency to mistake an average of the presented faces as target, thus confirming the universality of ensemble coding, East Asian participants displayed a higher averaging tendency relative to the Westerners. To further examine how a cultural default can be adapted to global or local processing demand, our second experiment tested the effects of priming global or local processing orientation on ensemble coding via a Navon task procedure. Results revealed a reduced tendency for ensemble coding following the priming of local processing orientation. Together, these results suggest that culture can influence the proneness to ensemble coding, and the default cultural mode is malleable to a temporary processing demand.

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Culture variation in the average identity extraction: The role of global vs. local processing orientation

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“…Several attentional factors have been described in the literature that might also influence mindfulness. Narrow attentional focus is visual convergence, where specific, central external stimuli are volitionally selected, often with intense concentration, while peripheral visual objects are deselected (Fehmi and Shor, 2013; Sun et al, 2016). Widening the visual scope of attentional focus has been associated with relaxed attention and a balanced state of arousal and sympathetic and parasympathetic neural function (Fehmi and Shor, 2013).…”

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Brainwave Self-Regulation During Bispectral IndexTM Neurofeedback in Trauma Center Nurses and Physicians After Receiving Mindfulness Instructions

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Fifty-seven level I trauma center nurses/physicians participated in a 4-day intervention to learn relaxed alertness using mindfulness-based instructions and EEG neurofeedback. Neurofeedback was provided by a Bispectral IndexTM (BIS) system that continuously displays a BIS value (0–100) on the monitor screen. Reductions in the BIS value indicate that power in a high-frequency band (30–47 Hz) is decreased and power in an intermediate band (11–20 Hz) is increased. A wellbeing tool with four positive affect and seven negative affect items based on a 5-category Likert scale was used. The wellbeing score is the sum of the positive affect items (positive affect score) and the reverse-scored negative affect items (non-stress score). Of functional concern were four negative affect items rated as moderately, quite a bit, or extremely in a large percent. Of greater concern were all four positive affect items rated as very slightly or none at all, a little, or moderately in over half of the participants. Mean and nadir BIS values were markedly decreased during neurofeedback when compared to baseline values. Post-session relaxation scores were higher than pre-session relaxation scores. Post-session relaxation scores had an inverse relationship with mean and nadir BIS values. Mean and nadir BIS values were inversely associated with NFB cognitive states (i.e., widening the visual field, decreasing effort, attention to space, and relaxed alertness). For all participants, the wellbeing score was higher on day 4 than on day 1. Participants had a higher wellbeing score on day 4 than a larger group of nurses/physicians who did not participate in the BIS neurofeedback trial. Eighty percent of participants demonstrated an improvement in the positive affect or non-stress score on day 4, when compared to day 1; the wellbeing, non-stress, and positive affect scores were substantially higher on day 4 than on day 1. Additionally, for that 80% of participants, the improvements in wellbeing and non-stress were associated with reductions in day 3 BIS values. These findings indicate that trauma center nurses/physicians participating in an EEG neurofeedback trial with mindfulness instructions had improvements in wellbeing.Clinical Trial Registration: www.ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier NCT03152331. Registered May 15, 2017.

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The Effect of Single-Session Mindfulness Training on Preschool Children’s Attentional Control

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2016

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A global attentional scope setting prioritizes faces for conscious detection

Cited by 4 publications

References 77 publications

Culture variation in the average identity extraction: The role of global vs. local processing orientation

Culture variation in the average identity extraction: The role of global vs. local processing orientation

Brainwave Self-Regulation During Bispectral IndexTM Neurofeedback in Trauma Center Nurses and Physicians After Receiving Mindfulness Instructions

The Effect of Single-Session Mindfulness Training on Preschool Children’s Attentional Control

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