Numerous studies on face processing have revealed their special ability to affect attention,
but relatively little research has been done on how faces guide spatial attention allocation …

This study tested how human faces affect object-based attention (OBA) through two online
experiments in a modified double-rectangle paradigm. The results of Experiment 1 revealed …

Humans attend to faces. This study examines the extent to which attention biases to faces
are under top-down control. In a visual cueing paradigm, observers responded faster to a …

The present study investigated whether faces capture attention regardless of attentional set.
The presentation of a face as a distractor during a visual search has been shown to impair …

Facial stimuli have been shown to accrue a special status within visual processing,
particularly when attention is prioritized to one face over another on the basis of affective …

Many potentially significant social signals can serve as cues for guiding attention. Given that
faces are an ecologically important stimulus for the visual system, an attentional advantage …

Attention may be biased towards faces but a face advantage may be linked to the upright
orientation of a face. Three experiments, employing a flanker and a cuing paradigm …

While a large amount of research conducted so far has reported that faces attract attention
preferentially, our recent investigations cast doubt onto this general conclusion. In a series of …

Direct eye contact and motion onset both constitute powerful cues that capture attention.
Recent research suggests that (social) gaze and (non-social) motion onset influence …

In the present study, we investigated whether attention to faces results in sensory gain
modulation. Participants were cued to attend either to faces or to scenes in superimposed …