{
 "paper": "scheller-2026-self-prioritization",
 "model": "supplied:runs/scheller-2026-self-prioritization/plain-claim.answer.json",
 "prompt": "extract/prompts/plain-claim.md",
 "claims": [
  {
   "slug": "decisional-dimension-tradeoff",
   "role": "empirical",
   "panel": "fig9",
   "plain": "People who prioritise their own shape most strongly in the perceptual task prioritise it least when judging whose shape it is."
  },
  {
   "slug": "hypothesis-capacity-mechanism-not-weights",
   "role": "hypothesis",
   "panel": "hypothesis",
   "plain": "Linking a shape to the self raises total processing capacity rather than just shifting attentional weight between the shapes."
  },
  {
   "slug": "hypothesis-self-association-alters-attentional-selection",
   "role": "hypothesis",
   "panel": "hypothesis",
   "plain": "Arbitrarily pairing a shape with the self speeds how fast that shape is selected into awareness, with no social judgement needed."
  },
  {
   "slug": "hypothesis-social-perceptual-independent-mechanisms",
   "role": "hypothesis",
   "panel": "hypothesis",
   "plain": "Social salience and perceptual salience capture attention through independent mechanisms, so their effects simply add up."
  },
  {
   "slug": "interprets-bundesen-tva-framework",
   "role": "literature-context",
   "panel": "introduction, methods (TVA model variants), results (fig4, fig5–7), discussion",
   "plain": "Bundesen's Theory of Visual Attention splits attention into a total processing capacity and relative weights on each stimulus."
  },
  {
   "slug": "other-association-advantage-social-condition",
   "role": "empirical",
   "panel": "fig6",
   "plain": "In the second experiment's social decision task, the other-associated shape was processed faster than the self-associated one."
  },
  {
   "slug": "perceptual-salience-6hz-advantage",
   "role": "control",
   "panel": "fig6",
   "plain": "Making a shape higher in local colour contrast speeds its processing and slows the competing shape."
  },
  {
   "slug": "prediction-additive-effects-other-associated",
   "role": "prediction",
   "panel": "prediction",
   "plain": "For an other-associated shape that is also high-contrast, the two speed-ups should simply add, with no interaction between them."
  },
  {
   "slug": "prediction-capacity-model-outperforms-weights-only",
   "role": "prediction",
   "panel": "prediction",
   "plain": "A TVA model that lets processing capacity change with condition should fit the data better than one holding capacity fixed."
  },
  {
   "slug": "prediction-self-advantage-attenuated-social-decision",
   "role": "prediction",
   "panel": "prediction",
   "plain": "Requiring an explicit judgement of whose shape it is should shrink or reverse the self-advantage seen in the perceptual task."
  },
  {
   "slug": "prediction-self-advantage-perceptual-decision",
   "role": "prediction",
   "panel": "prediction",
   "plain": "When asked only which shape flickered first, people should process the self-associated shape faster than the other-associated one."
  },
  {
   "slug": "processing-capacity-rises-perceptual-self",
   "role": "empirical",
   "panel": "fig5",
   "plain": "In the perceptual task, processing capacity rises and the gain goes to the self-associated shape, not the other-associated one."
  },
  {
   "slug": "scope-toj-tva-paradigm",
   "role": "scope",
   "panel": "scope",
   "plain": "All claims rest on two preregistered online experiments using temporal order judgements of arbitrarily self-paired shapes."
  },
  {
   "slug": "self-prioritization-absent-social-decision",
   "role": "empirical",
   "panel": "fig5",
   "plain": "When the task is to report whose shape flickered first, the self-associated shape holds no processing advantage."
  },
  {
   "slug": "self-prioritization-automatic-early",
   "role": "interpretation",
   "panel": "fig5 (synthesis)",
   "plain": "Self-association speeds attentional selection automatically and early, before any decoding of social identity."
  },
  {
   "slug": "self-prioritization-perceptual-decision-automatic",
   "role": "empirical",
   "panel": "fig5",
   "plain": "Asked only which shape flickered first, people processed the self-associated shape faster than the other-associated one."
  },
  {
   "slug": "self-salience-dominates-other-associated",
   "role": "synthesis",
   "panel": "fig9 (Tables 1, 2)",
   "plain": "Social salience drives attention more for self-associated shapes, physical salience more for other-associated ones."
  },
  {
   "slug": "self-salience-reduces-perceptual-benefit",
   "role": "empirical",
   "panel": "fig6, fig7",
   "plain": "A self-associated shape gains less from being made perceptually salient than an other-associated or unassociated shape does."
  },
  {
   "slug": "self-social-additive-perceptual",
   "role": "empirical",
   "panel": "fig7",
   "plain": "For other-associated shapes, the social and the perceptual speed-up add up with no interaction between them."
  },
  {
   "slug": "social-perceptual-salience-independent-streams",
   "role": "interpretation",
   "panel": "fig7 (synthesis)",
   "plain": "Social and perceptual salience capture attention through separate processing streams rather than drawing on one shared resource."
  },
  {
   "slug": "spe-matching-correlates-social-decision",
   "role": "empirical",
   "panel": "fig9",
   "plain": "Self-prioritisation in the matching task tracks processing gains in the social decision task but not in the perceptual one."
  },
  {
   "slug": "spe-robust-matching-both-experiments",
   "role": "control",
   "panel": "fig8",
   "plain": "Participants in both experiments matched the self-associated shape faster, confirming they had learned the shape-person pairings."
  },
  {
   "slug": "tva-capacity-model-wins",
   "role": "methodological",
   "panel": "fig4",
   "plain": "A TVA model whose processing capacity is free to change between conditions fits better than one holding capacity fixed."
  }
 ]
}