Eye movement parameters can be highly informative regarding how people explore the
social environment around them. This theoretical review examines how human faces and …

Increasing evidence suggests that individuals are highly sensitive to self-related stimuli.
Here, we report two experiments conducted to assess whether two schematic stimuli …

Resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has provided solid evidence
that the default mode network (DMN) is implicated in self‐referential processing. The …

In their seminal paper 'Is our self nothing but reward', Northoff and Hayes (Biol Psychiatry 69
(11): 1019–1025, Northoff, Hayes, Biological Psychiatry 69 (11): 1019–1025, 2011) …

Attention is influenced by information about relationships between ourselves and the objects
around us. Self-related objects can either facilitate or disrupt task performance, creating a …

It is well documented that stimuli associated with the self are easier to process than identical
material paired with other people (ie, self-prioritization effect). Surprisingly, however …

Saccades are known to deviate away from distractors, and the amplitude of this deviation
seems to reflect the salience of these stimuli, as in the case of human faces. Here, we …

Facial mimicry is a ubiquitous social behaviour modulated by a range of social cues,
including those related to reward value and self-relevance. However, previous research has …

Self-related information is processed with priority, an effect known as the self-prioritization
effect (SPE). Recent studies on SPE show enhanced cognitive processing of the newly …

People show systematic biases in perception, memory, attention, and decision-making to
prioritise information related to self, reward, and positive emotion. A long-standing set of …