Withholding Response to Self-Face Is Faster Than to Other-Face

Abstract

ABSTRACT. Self-face advantage refers to adults’ response to self-face is faster than that to other-face. A stop-signal task was used to explore how self-face advantage interacted with response inhibition. The results showed that reaction times of self-face were faster than that of other-face not in the go task but in the stop response trials. The novelty of the finding was that self-face has shorter stop-signal reaction time compared to other-face in the successful inhibition trials. These results indicated the processing mechanism of self-face may be characterized by a strong response tendency and a corresponding strong inhibition control.

Keywords:

• response inhibition
• self-face advantage
• stop-signal reaction time
• stop-signal task

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank Gordon D. Logan and Patrick Bissett for providing their e-prime procedure to us for reference and the anonymous reviewer for his/her comments reported about this article.

FUNDING

This research was supported by the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (12ZS117).