Exploring the spatial interference effects elicited by social and non‐social targets: A conditional accuracy function approach.

Recent studies employing the spatial interference paradigm reveal qualitative differences in congruency effects between gaze and arrow targets. Typically, arrows produce a standard congruency effect (SCE), with faster responses when target direction aligns with its location. Conversely, gaze targets...

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Published in:British Journal of Psychology Vol. 116; no. 1; pp. 69 - 89
Main Authors: Ponce, Renato, Lupiáñez, Juan, González‐García, Carlos, Casagrande, Maria, Marotta, Andrea
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell Feb2025
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          Ponce, Renato
          Lupiáñez, Juan
          González‐García, Carlos
          Casagrande, Maria
          Marotta, Andrea
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          Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
          Department of Experimental Psychology & Mind, Brain and Behaviour Research Centre (CIMCYC), University of Granada, Granada, Spain
          Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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        Social perception
        Attention
        Social skills
        Research funding
        Space perception
        Reaction time
        Eye movements
        Face perception
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          Social perception
          Attention
          Social skills
          Research funding
          Space perception
          Reaction time
          Eye movements
          Face perception
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        conditional accuracy function
        distributional analysis
        gaze versus arrows
        social attention
        spatial interference effect
        conditional accuracy function
        distributional analysis
        gaze versus arrows
        social attention
        spatial interference effect
      ab: Recent studies employing the spatial interference paradigm reveal qualitative differences in congruency effects between gaze and arrow targets. Typically, arrows produce a standard congruency effect (SCE), with faster responses when target direction aligns with its location. Conversely, gaze targets often lead to a reversed congruency effect (RCE), where responses are slower in similar conditions. We explored this dissociation using the Conditional Accuracy Function (CAF) to assess accuracy across reaction time bins. Using a hierarchical linear mixed modelling approach to compare cropped eyes, and full faces as social stimuli, and arrows as non‐social stimuli, we synthesized findings from 11 studies, which led to three distinct models. The results showed that with non‐social targets, incongruent trials exhibited lower accuracy rates in the first bin than in subsequent bins, while congruent trials maintained stable accuracy throughout the distribution. Conversely, social targets revealed a dissociation within the fastest responses; alongside a general reduction in accuracy for both congruency conditions, congruent trials resulted in even lower accuracy rates than incongruent ones. These results suggest with gaze targets that additional information, perhaps social, in addition to the automatic capture by the irrelevant target location, is being processed during the earlier stages of processing.
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