This study investigates intra-individual variability in the Consideration of Future Consequences (CFC) by employing domain-specific scale adaptations and a person-centered analytical approach. Across two independent samples (Study 1: N = 371; Study 2: N = 367), we used Latent Profile Analysis to identify subgroups based on general and domain-specific CFC measures (health, physical activity, food, and work), capturing both immediate and future subscales. Our results suggest the existence of Congruent profiles (consistently high/low across domains), Incongruent profiles (e.g., high future orientation in work but high immediate orientation in health), observed in ∼5% or ∼21% of participants in Study 1 and 2, respectively. These profiles relate consistently to health and work-related outcomes. These results advance theoretical debates on time perspective by demonstrating the necessity of domain-specific assessment. They also offer practical insights for tailoring public campaigns and interventions (e.g., health, occupational) to individuals with heterogeneous temporal profiles.
{"title":"Is consideration of future consequences consistent across specific domains? A latent profile analysis","authors":"Lucía Alvarez-Nuñez , Alejandro Vásquez-Echeverría , Tianna Loose , Mirko Antino","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2026.113711","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2026.113711","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates intra-individual variability in the Consideration of Future Consequences (CFC) by employing domain-specific scale adaptations and a person-centered analytical approach. Across two independent samples (Study 1: <em>N</em> = 371; Study 2: <em>N</em> = 367), we used Latent Profile Analysis to identify subgroups based on general and domain-specific CFC measures (health, physical activity, food, and work), capturing both immediate and future subscales. Our results suggest the existence of Congruent profiles (consistently high/low across domains), Incongruent profiles (e.g., high future orientation in work but high immediate orientation in health), observed in ∼5% or ∼21% of participants in Study 1 and 2, respectively. These profiles relate consistently to health and work-related outcomes. These results advance theoretical debates on time perspective by demonstrating the necessity of domain-specific assessment. They also offer practical insights for tailoring public campaigns and interventions (e.g., health, occupational) to individuals with heterogeneous temporal profiles.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"255 ","pages":"Article 113711"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146189758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-01-30DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2026.113638
Thomas V. Pollet, Billy Fitzpatrick, Sophia Meziani, Ellie M. Pashley, Ema Šefčíková
Birth order has long been argued to be an important individual difference variable for domains such as personality and achievement. However, after many decades of research, the evidence for a birth order effect is scarce at best. Less is known about the role of birth order for social relationships, in particular romantic relationships. This paper re-examines a previously reported finding that firstborns report less romantic jealousy than laterborns. We present data from four samples (total n > 950) with a MANOVA design, mirroring the study on which this original claim was based. Across all samples and multiple robustness checks, we found no statistical support for the claim that firstborns report less jealousy than laterborns. Both frequentist and Bayesian meta-analyses did not support a birth order effect on jealousy (frequentist estimate: r 0.08, 95% CI [−0.018, 0.170]). These findings challenge the notion of birth order as a significant predictor for romantic jealousy and suggest that research on romantic relationships may yield greater insight by focussing on other individual difference variables than birth order.
{"title":"Revisiting the relationship between birth order and romantic jealousy: No support for an effect in four samples","authors":"Thomas V. Pollet, Billy Fitzpatrick, Sophia Meziani, Ellie M. Pashley, Ema Šefčíková","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2026.113638","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2026.113638","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Birth order has long been argued to be an important individual difference variable for domains such as personality and achievement. However, after many decades of research, the evidence for a birth order effect is scarce at best. Less is known about the role of birth order for social relationships, in particular romantic relationships. This paper re-examines a previously reported finding that firstborns report less romantic jealousy than laterborns. We present data from four samples (total n > 950) with a MANOVA design, mirroring the study on which this original claim was based. Across all samples and multiple robustness checks, we found no statistical support for the claim that firstborns report less jealousy than laterborns. Both frequentist and Bayesian meta-analyses did not support a birth order effect on jealousy (frequentist estimate: <em>r</em> <span><math><mo>=</mo></math></span> 0.08, 95% CI [−0.018, 0.170]). These findings challenge the notion of birth order as a significant predictor for romantic jealousy and suggest that research on romantic relationships may yield greater insight by focussing on other individual difference variables than birth order.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"255 ","pages":"Article 113638"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146189753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-02-16DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2026.108951
Yi-Ting Huang , Yu-Chiao Huang , En-Chia Lin
As virtual idols become central actors in transmedia entertainment ecosystems, the psychological connections between fans and virtual characters have grown more diverse and complex. K/DA, a virtual girl group that blends the League of Legends game universe with K-pop idol imagery, serves as a representative case of transmedia character design. Guided by social cognitive theory and drawing on self-expansion theory, this study examines how fans form avatar identification through engagement with virtual characters. We distinguish three fan groups—esports players, K-pop fans, and dual fans—and construct a psychological transformation model based on four analytical categories: avatar characteristics, celebrities’ real-world influence, media richness, and self-image congruence. This study collected survey data from 800 valid respondents and analyzed the data using partial least squares structural equation modeling. The results indicate that narrative engagement, ideal self-image congruence, and ideal others-image congruence are stable predictors of avatar identification across fan groups, whereas physical attractiveness, worship, and vividness exhibit group-specific effects. These findings deepen the understanding of the psychological processes underlying avatar identification in transmedia contexts and provide empirical implications for virtual idol management and fan engagement strategies.
随着虚拟偶像成为跨媒体娱乐生态系统的核心角色，粉丝与虚拟角色之间的心理联系变得更加多样和复杂。将《英雄联盟》（League of Legends）游戏世界与韩国流行偶像形象融合在一起的虚拟女子组合K/DA是跨媒体角色设计的代表性案例。本研究以社会认知理论为指导，借鉴自我拓展理论，探讨粉丝如何通过与虚拟角色的互动形成虚拟身份认同。我们区分了电子竞技粉丝、K-pop粉丝和双重粉丝三种粉丝群体，并基于化身特征、名人现实世界影响力、媒体丰富性和自我形象一致性四个分析类别构建了一个心理转换模型。本研究收集了800名有效受访者的调查数据，并使用偏最小二乘结构方程模型对数据进行分析。结果表明，叙事参与、理想自我形象一致性和理想他人形象一致性是粉丝群体对虚拟形象认同的稳定预测因素，而身体吸引力、崇拜和生动性则表现出群体特异性效应。这些发现加深了对跨媒体背景下虚拟形象识别背后的心理过程的理解，并为虚拟偶像管理和粉丝参与策略提供了实证启示。
{"title":"Virtual characters, real emotions: Avatar identification and psychological transformation across esports and K-pop fandoms","authors":"Yi-Ting Huang , Yu-Chiao Huang , En-Chia Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.chb.2026.108951","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chb.2026.108951","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As virtual idols become central actors in transmedia entertainment ecosystems, the psychological connections between fans and virtual characters have grown more diverse and complex. K/DA, a virtual girl group that blends the <em>League of Legends</em> game universe with K-pop idol imagery, serves as a representative case of transmedia character design. Guided by social cognitive theory and drawing on self-expansion theory, this study examines how fans form avatar identification through engagement with virtual characters. We distinguish three fan groups—esports players, K-pop fans, and dual fans—and construct a psychological transformation model based on four analytical categories: avatar characteristics, celebrities’ real-world influence, media richness, and self-image congruence. This study collected survey data from 800 valid respondents and analyzed the data using partial least squares structural equation modeling. The results indicate that narrative engagement, ideal self-image congruence, and ideal others-image congruence are stable predictors of avatar identification across fan groups, whereas physical attractiveness, worship, and vividness exhibit group-specific effects. These findings deepen the understanding of the psychological processes underlying avatar identification in transmedia contexts and provide empirical implications for virtual idol management and fan engagement strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48471,"journal":{"name":"Computers in Human Behavior","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 108951"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147385739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-02-07DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2026.113710
Charlie Rioux , Megan E. Waldron , Delaney C. Fulp , Christina M. Personette , McKenna K. Nhem
The Highly Sensitive Personality (HSP) captures sensitivity towards external and internal stimuli and emotional reactivity to overstimulation while the Adult Sensory Profile is a clinical tool that gauges four behavioral patterns that occur in response to overstimulation: low registration, sensation seeking, sensory sensitivity, and sensation avoiding. The Sensory Profile could contribute a more nuanced understanding of the HSP's threshold of sensitivity, behavioral patterns, and sensory needs. Accordingly, this study aimed to examine associations between the HSP and Sensory Profile. 565 United States adults (age 18–94) were recruited via Prolific using the representative sample option, stratifying based on Census sex, age, and ethnicity. Participants completed the HSP scale and the Sensory Profile. Correlations, path analyses, and descriptive statistics showed that participants who scored high on the HSP total scale scored higher on low registration, sensory sensitivity and sensation avoiding. Different sensory tendencies were identified across HSP facets (low sensory threshold, ease of excitation, aesthetic sensitivity), suggesting that highly sensitive people may display different processing patterns and coping mechanisms depending on their HSP subtype. Using the Adult Sensory Profile could better inform support for highly sensitive individuals when their sensory processing type is not complementary to a desired aspect in their life.
{"title":"Sensory profile of the highly sensitive personality","authors":"Charlie Rioux , Megan E. Waldron , Delaney C. Fulp , Christina M. Personette , McKenna K. Nhem","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2026.113710","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2026.113710","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Highly Sensitive Personality (HSP) captures sensitivity towards external and internal stimuli and emotional reactivity to overstimulation while the Adult Sensory Profile is a clinical tool that gauges four behavioral patterns that occur in response to overstimulation: low registration, sensation seeking, sensory sensitivity, and sensation avoiding. The Sensory Profile could contribute a more nuanced understanding of the HSP's threshold of sensitivity, behavioral patterns, and sensory needs. Accordingly, this study aimed to examine associations between the HSP and Sensory Profile. 565 United States adults (age 18–94) were recruited via Prolific using the representative sample option, stratifying based on Census sex, age, and ethnicity. Participants completed the HSP scale and the Sensory Profile. Correlations, path analyses, and descriptive statistics showed that participants who scored high on the HSP total scale scored higher on low registration, sensory sensitivity and sensation avoiding. Different sensory tendencies were identified across HSP facets (low sensory threshold, ease of excitation, aesthetic sensitivity), suggesting that highly sensitive people may display different processing patterns and coping mechanisms depending on their HSP subtype. Using the Adult Sensory Profile could better inform support for highly sensitive individuals when their sensory processing type is not complementary to a desired aspect in their life.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"255 ","pages":"Article 113710"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146190312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is a personality trait marked by deeper cognitive processing and heightened awareness of environmental subtleties. While prior neuroimaging studies have linked SPS to enhanced top-down processing, its role in bottom-up change detection remains unclear. In this study, 518 healthy adults completed the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) Scale, from which 26 individuals in the top 10% (high SPS) and 25 in the bottom 10% (low SPS) were recruited for an event-related potential (ERP) experiment. Participants underwent a passive auditory oddball paradigm while ERPs were recorded. Mismatch negativity (MMN) was analyzed in both time and time-frequency domains. Both groups exhibited robust MMN responses, with no significant differences in peak amplitude or latency. However, in the time-frequency analysis, high–SPS individuals showed significantly reduced alpha power to deviant stimuli compared with low–SPS individuals (p = 0.002, effect size r = 0.508). Moreover, reduced alpha power correlated with higher scores on HSP Scale, even after controlling for Extraversion and Emotional Stability (partial r = −0.446, p = 0.029). These findings provide electrophysiological evidence for altered bottom-up sensory processing in SPS, complementing prior research on top-down mechanisms and supporting models proposing fundamental differences in neural sensitivity architecture.
{"title":"Neurophysiological correlates of sensory processing sensitivity: Altered alpha oscillations during auditory change detection","authors":"Cheng-Ying Yu , Ching-Chi Chiu , Chih-Mao Huang , Hsinjie Lu , Chia-Hsiung Cheng","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2026.113676","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2026.113676","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is a personality trait marked by deeper cognitive processing and heightened awareness of environmental subtleties. While prior neuroimaging studies have linked SPS to enhanced top-down processing, its role in bottom-up change detection remains unclear. In this study, 518 healthy adults completed the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) Scale, from which 26 individuals in the top 10% (high SPS) and 25 in the bottom 10% (low SPS) were recruited for an event-related potential (ERP) experiment. Participants underwent a passive auditory oddball paradigm while ERPs were recorded. Mismatch negativity (MMN) was analyzed in both time and time-frequency domains. Both groups exhibited robust MMN responses, with no significant differences in peak amplitude or latency. However, in the time-frequency analysis, high–SPS individuals showed significantly reduced alpha power to deviant stimuli compared with low–SPS individuals (<em>p</em> = 0.002, effect size <em>r</em> = 0.508). Moreover, reduced alpha power correlated with higher scores on HSP Scale, even after controlling for Extraversion and Emotional Stability (partial <em>r</em> = −0.446, <em>p</em> = 0.029). These findings provide electrophysiological evidence for altered bottom-up sensory processing in SPS, complementing prior research on top-down mechanisms and supporting models proposing fundamental differences in neural sensitivity architecture.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"255 ","pages":"Article 113676"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146190315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-02-13DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2026.106478
Xucong Hu , Yitong Zheng , Qinyi Hu , Hui Chen , Mowei Shen , Jifan Zhou
The underlying mechanism of visual perspective-taking (VPT)—the ability to represent what others see—remains contested. Perceptual simulation theory proposes that VPT involves reconstructing others' visual experiences, whereas heuristic accounts argue that it relies on symbolic inference grounded in naïve optics. Evidence for heuristics largely comes from explicit report tasks, leaving open whether spontaneous (implicit) VPT in an agent-irrelevant task is driven by the same mechanism. A further possibility is that apparent “simulation failures” arise because observers lack prior visual information about what the other sees from their viewpoint. Across two experiments, participants performed an agent-irrelevant line-length judgment task while receiving plausible, absent, or implausible prior visual information from the agent's viewpoint. Experiment 1 showed a robust perspective-consistent bias under plausible priors, no bias without priors, and a weaker bias under implausible priors. A control experiment ruled out priming. Experiment 2 parametrically varied implausibility in a Ponzo-style layout and revealed a boundary condition: priors ranging from plausible to moderately implausible continued to bias judgments, whereas highly implausible priors were discounted. These results support a bounded, resource-rational heuristic account in which others' visual information acts as plausibility-weighted cues integrated with one's own visual input, rather than being reconstructed via perceptual simulation.
{"title":"I'll believe it unless it's too absurd: Spontaneous visual perspective-taking as prior-based heuristic inference","authors":"Xucong Hu , Yitong Zheng , Qinyi Hu , Hui Chen , Mowei Shen , Jifan Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.cognition.2026.106478","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cognition.2026.106478","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The underlying mechanism of visual perspective-taking (VPT)—the ability to represent what others see—remains contested. Perceptual simulation theory proposes that VPT involves reconstructing others' visual experiences, whereas heuristic accounts argue that it relies on symbolic inference grounded in naïve optics. Evidence for heuristics largely comes from explicit report tasks, leaving open whether spontaneous (implicit) VPT in an agent-irrelevant task is driven by the same mechanism. A further possibility is that apparent “simulation failures” arise because observers lack prior visual information about what the other sees from their viewpoint. Across two experiments, participants performed an agent-irrelevant line-length judgment task while receiving plausible, absent, or implausible prior visual information from the agent's viewpoint. Experiment 1 showed a robust perspective-consistent bias under plausible priors, no bias without priors, and a weaker bias under implausible priors. A control experiment ruled out priming. Experiment 2 parametrically varied implausibility in a Ponzo-style layout and revealed a boundary condition: priors ranging from plausible to moderately implausible continued to bias judgments, whereas highly implausible priors were discounted. These results support a bounded, resource-rational heuristic account in which others' visual information acts as plausibility-weighted cues integrated with one's own visual input, rather than being reconstructed via perceptual simulation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48455,"journal":{"name":"Cognition","volume":"271 ","pages":"Article 106478"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146173584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-02-07DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2026.106467
Mandy Cartner , Matthew Kogan , Nikolas Webster , Matthew Wagers , Ivy Sichel
A central question about our shared capacity for language is how it is integrated with other cognitive systems. One important debate focuses on the extent to which the form of linguistic expressions is grounded in their communicative function: Can all constraints on linguistic form be attributed to the way constructions package information, or is linguistic form autonomous of meaning and function? One area of disagreement involves islands: phrases which block the formation of long-distance filler-gap dependencies (Ross, 1967). Grammatical subjects are considered islands, since questioning a sub-part of a subject results in an ill-formed sentence, e.g., “Which topic did the article about inspire you?”. Autonomous syntactic approaches to islands attribute this ungrammaticality to the abstract movement dependency between the wh-phrase and the subject-internal position with which it is associated. An alternative developed in Abeillé et al. (2020) suggests that subjects' island status is specific to the information structure of wh-questions, suggesting that subjects are not islands for movement, but for focusing, due to their discourse-backgroundedness. This predicts that other constructions that involve movement but not focusing should not create a subject island effect. We test this in three acceptability studies, using a factorial design to isolate subject island violations across three constructions: wh-questions, relative clauses and topicalization. We find a subject island effect in each case, despite only wh-questions introducing what Abeillé et al. (2020) call “a clash in information structure”. We argue that this motivates an account of islands in terms of syntactic representations shared across constructions, independent of communicative function.
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Recent research emphasizes the critical role of parent-child interaction quality in the development and maintenance of feeding problems (FP). This study examined the relationship between mother-toddler interaction quality and FP in in toddlers aged 12–36 months, incorporating recent theoretical advances and intervention approaches. A cross-sectional comparative study was conducted with 58 mother-toddler dyads (33 with FP, 25 nonFP) recruited from pediatric and child psychiatry clinics. Mothers completed standardized assessments including Infancy Adaptive Eating Behavior Scale, Brief Infant-Toddler Social-Emotional Assessment, and Brief Symptom Inventory. Mother-toddler interactions during play and structured tasks were video-recorded and scored using the Mother-Toddler Interaction Multiaxial Assessment (MTI-MAXA). Toddlers with FP exhibited significantly more problematic eating behaviors and lower interaction quality compared to nonFP group. Mothers in the FP group had significantly lower total scores, particularly in Reciprocity and Flexibility-Adaptation. Toddlers in the FP group showed lower scores across most subscales, with overall dyadic interaction quality significantly poorer. Higher child involvement scores were associated with reduced odds of having FP, and greater maternal interaction quality predicted lower FP severity. No significant differences were found in maternal or child psychopathological risk between groups. The MTI-MAXA demonstrated excellent interrater reliability, with high internal consistency for both maternal (α =.933) and child (α =.946) interaction scores. These findings demonstrate that early relational difficulties contribute to FP independently of psychopathology. The study provides evidence for the effectiveness of observational assessment tools in identifying at-risk dyads and supports the implementation of family-centered, relationally-focused interventions. Early identification and targeted intervention focusing on interaction quality may prevent the escalation of subclinical difficulties into diagnosable feeding disorders.
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Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-02-16DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2026.108947
Alena Ovakimian, Ekaterina Karimova
The rapid expansion of technology is raising new questions about changes in attention skills in virtual reality (VR) and video games. In this study, we compared attention shifting and maintenance in a gamified Posner cueing task performed in virtual reality (VR) versus a traditional desktop (DT) setting, and between professional esports players and control participants. 69 healthy people took part in the study. EEG spectral markers (event-related desynchronization/synchronization (ERD/ERS) of attentional shift and maintenance were analyzed in the dorsal attention network (DAN) areas. Peak amplitudes and latencies were compared for the attention shift vs maintenance, VR vs DT demonstration and eSports athletes vs 2 groups of controls (amateurs and control group). Behaviorally, participants showed a pseudoneglect (faster responses to left targets) effect.
slower RT in VR. A reduced degree of alpha ERD amplitude and an earlier beta ERD peak in the VR environment was shown. This is associated with a reduced requirement for visual processing and earlier attentional control in VR.
The eSports players showed faster RT, attentional resources balance (theta ERS results) and flexible attentional control/policy and motor preparation strategy adaptation in DT after attentional shift and maintenance (beta ERD results), compared to the controls. Our results underscore the importance of considering environment and expertise when evaluating attentional processes.
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