Is visual attention automatically attracted by one's own name?

Subjects were presented with briefly exposed visual displays of words that were common first names with a length of four to six letters. In the main experiment, each display consisted af four words: two names shown in red and two shown in white. The subject's task was to report the red names (targets), but ignore the white ones (distractors). On some trials the subject's own name appeared as a display item (target or distracter). Presentation of the subject's name Its a distracter caused no more interference with report of targets than did presentation of other names as distracters. Apparently, visual attention tvas not automatically attracted by the subject's own name.