A long-standing controversy in social attention debates whether gaze-of-another induces reflexive shifts of one’s own attention. In attempting to resolve this controversy, we utilized a novel Stroop task, the PAT Stroop, in which pro- and anti-saccade (PAT) responses are made to competing gaze and peripheral stimuli. The first experiment demonstrated a “Stroop effect” for peripheral stimuli, i.e. peripheral distractors interfered with gaze triggers, but gaze distractors did not interfere with peripheral triggers. These results were replicated in the second experiment, which also negated the possibility that the mere display and practice of the “clean PAT” influenced the results. Thus, the use a new PAT Stroop task demonstrated reflexive supremacy of peripheral stimuli over gaze stimuli. This novel variant of the Stroop task demonstrated similar characteristics to the classic color naming Stroop - i.e. an asymmetrical pattern, and again showed the utility and versatility of stoop-like tasks in probing mental tasks.

社会关注中长期存在的争论是关于注视他人是否会引起自身注意力的反射性转变。为了解决这一争议，我们使用了一种新颖的 Stroop 任务 PAT Stroop，其中对竞争性凝视和外周刺激做出亲和反眼跳 (PAT) 反应。第一个实验证明了外围刺激的“Stroop 效应”，即外围干扰物干扰凝视触发，但凝视干扰物不干扰外围触发。这些结果在第二个实验中得到了重复，这也否定了“清洁 PAT”的展示和实践影响结果的可能性。因此，使用新的 PAT Stroop 任务证明了外周刺激对注视刺激的反射优势。