GAZE PERCEPTION AND SOCIAL ATTENTION

A Direct Link between Gaze Perception and Social Attention

A Direct Link between Gaze Perception and Social Attention

Summary

The study is based of exchanging of information between the cognitive mechanisms which are liable for social attention and gaze perception is uncertain. These cognitive mechanisms could be independent; as orienting to social gaze direction may be directly related with the process of these systems in particular dedicated to the gaze perception. In context of gaze cueing of attention, it can be said that the behavioral impact of observing the averted gaze on attention has in the same way got the interest of various research groups. Alternatively, the effect of gaze cueing can possibly come forward from the activation of a general purpose attentional system which is ignorant of the social nature of the gaze cue.

Methods

The study is based on two experiments; however, the first experiment was divided into two parts. The first experiment was intended to test whether the set of stimuli could draw out the outcomes of adaptation on gaze perception; moreover, the second part first experiment examines the impact of adaptation on gaze cueing. In relation to this, it is found that there are strong effects of adaptation on gaze direction shifted 5° from direct, with weaker yet dependable outcomes at 10° (Bayliss, Bartlett, Naughtin and Kritikos, 2011). Conversely, it is observed that using 5° of deviation might not be an adequate amount to generate a change of spatial attention, in the Experiment 1 b. For that reason, it is crucial to ascertain that the stimuli bring out the consistent effects of gaze adaptation on the perception of 10° of gaze deviation.

In Experiment 1 a, the participants of the study include sixteen female undergraduates which were selected from the School of Psychology, University of Queensland. However, in Experiment 1 b, thirty two participants participated in the experiment, in return for payment. Moreover, the Experiment 1 b is related to the gaze perception system which is directly responsible for gaze cueing then biasing the gaze perception system will also prejudice the attention system. The respondents in Experiment 1 b were depicted to the similar adapting stimuli seeing that in Experiment 1 (Bayliss, Bartlett, Naughtin and Kritikos, 2011). On the other hand, in its place of judging the way of gaze in the test faces which served as the non-predictive spatial cues to notice in a speeded target discrimination task. The forecast is that the stimuli produced considerable change in attention in the observer when they are in opposition to the direction to which the respondent has been adapted particularly for the more subtle averted gaze cues.

Besides it, the study also includes the Experiment 2, whose primary objective was to distinguish between two possible explanations for the outline of the data presented in Experiment 1 b. The first possible explanation is that the perceptual impacts of gaze adaptation affect the spatial attention system accountable for the gaze cueing effect. Moreover, another point which is tested here is that the ...