Although there is strong evidence that human decision-making is frequently self-biased, it
remains unclear whether self-biases mediate attention. Here we review evidence on the …

As you drive into the centre of town, cars and trucks approach from several directions, and
pedestrians swarm into the intersection. The wind blows a newspaper into the gutter and a …

According to DE Broadbent's (1958) selective filter theory, people do not process
unattended stimuli beyond the analysis of basic physical properties. This theory was later …

Distractor suppression refers to the ability to filter out distracting and task-irrelevant
information. Distractor suppression is essential for survival and considered a key aspect of …

Self-related information, due to its high social/adaptive value, seems to have a preferential
access to our attentional resources (cf. the cocktail party effect). However, it remains …

Drawing on decades of research suggesting an attentional advantage for self‐related
information, researchers generally assume that self‐related stimuli automatically capture …

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

Previous research has suggested that a person's own name or emotionally charged stimuli
automatically “grab” attention, potentially challenging limited-capacity theories of perceptual …

The clinical and para-clinical examination of residual self-consciousness in non-
communicative severely brain damaged patients (ie, coma, vegetative state and minimally …

It is well established that stimuli representing or associated with ourselves, like our own
name or an image of our own face, benefit from preferential processing. However, two key …