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  • Humans can quickly gather information about others, especially through facial features, with a primary focus on the eyes.
  • A study used the "don't look" paradigm to analyze how well participants could avoid fixating on specific facial areas (eyes, nose, mouth) during emotion recognition tasks.
  • Results showed that both Eastern observers had difficulty inhibiting their gaze on the nose, suggesting it also attracts attention automatically, especially in Eastern cultures.

Article Abstract

Humans can extract a great deal of information about others very quickly. This is partly because the face automatically captures observers' attention. Specifically, the eyes can attract overt attention. Although it has been reported that not only the eyes but also the nose can capture initial oculomotor movement in Eastern observers, its generalizability remains unknown. In this study, we applied the "don't look" paradigm wherein participants are asked not to fixate on a specific facial region (i.e., eyes, nose, and mouth) during an emotion recognition task with upright (Experiment 1) and inverted (Experiment 2) faces. In both experiments, we found that participants were less able to inhibit the initial part of their fixations to the nose, which can be interpreted as the nose automatically capturing attention. Along with previous studies, our overt attention tends to be attracted by a part of the face, which is the nose region in Easterner observers.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2021.103179DOI Listing

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