2019
The functional consequences of social attention on memory precision and on memory-guided orienting in development
Doherty B, Fraser A, Nobre A, Scerif G. The functional consequences of social attention on memory precision and on memory-guided orienting in development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 2019, 36: 100625. PMID: 30844682, PMCID: PMC6969233, DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100625.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-social scenesSocial distractorsMemory precisionNaturalistic scenesSocial attentionSocial scenesDevelopmental cognitive neuroscienceSocial attentional biasingMemory-guided attentionNon-social distractorsEye-tracking measuresAge-related differencesAttentional biasAttentional captureCognitive neuroscienceSocial stimuliVisual searchYear old childrenDistractorsEye trackingGaze behaviorMemoryYoung adultsSocial biasesVisual sceneThe Functional Consequences of Social Attention for Memory-guided Attention Orienting and Anticipatory Neural Dynamics
Doherty B, van Ede F, Fraser A, Patai E, Nobre A, Scerif G. The Functional Consequences of Social Attention for Memory-guided Attention Orienting and Anticipatory Neural Dynamics. Journal Of Cognitive Neuroscience 2019, 31: 686-698. PMID: 30726182, DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01379.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAttentional orientingAlpha-band oscillationsSocial distractorsMemory precisionMemory performanceSocial attentionPoorer memory performanceAttentional biasHealthy human adultsContextual memoryValidity effectDistractor typeEffect of social processesSocial scenesDistractorsNeural dynamicsAnticipatory dynamicsHuman adultsYoung adultsMemoryBidirectional chainFunctional consequencesTarget locationSocial processesAdults
2016
The functional consequences of social distraction: Attention and memory for complex scenes
Doherty B, Patai E, Duta M, Nobre A, Scerif G. The functional consequences of social distraction: Attention and memory for complex scenes. Cognition 2016, 158: 215-223. PMID: 27842274, DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.10.015.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-social distractorsSocial anxietyMemory precisionSocial stimuliLow-level visual salienceSocial distractionIndividual-difference measuresEye-tracking methodologyTarget locationAttentional captureAutistic traitsSocial scenesVisual attentionAttentional statusCognitive scientistsEye trackingMemoryDistractorsAnxietyVisual saliencyStimuliDistractionFunctional consequencesSalienceAttention