Self representation is fundamental to mental functions. While the self has mostly been
studied in traditional psychophilosophical terms ('self as subject'), recent laboratory work …

Highlights•Self-processing interacts with all the three attentional systems (alerting, orienting,
and executive control) to produce optimal behavior.•Self-prioritization effects occur in a …

It has long been established that when cues in the environment are perceived to have
relevance to self (eg, hearing your own name across a crowded room, seeing your own face …

People show systematic biases in perception, memory, and attention to favor information
related to themselves over information related to other people. Researchers have examined …

Such is the power of self-relevance, it has been argued that even arbitrary stimuli (eg,
shapes, lines, colors) with no prior personal connection are privileged during information …

Recently, Sui and colleagues introduced an experimental task to investigate prioritization of
arbitrary stimuli associated with the self. They demonstrated that after being told to associate …

When interacting with the environment, humans exhibit robust biases toward information that
pertains to themselves: Self-relevant information is processed faster and yields more …

We conducted three experiments to test the effect of assumed task-relevance of self-
association on the self-prioritization effect (SPE). Participants were first performing the …

Background Depression is characterised by a heightened self-focus, which is believed to be
associated with differences in emotion and reward processing. However, the precise …

There is abundant evidence of a self-bias in cognition, with prioritised processing of
information that is self-relevant. There is also abundant evidence of a positivity-bias in …