Gaze-cueing and endogenous attention operate in parallel

Sex differences in eye gaze and symbolic cueing of attention.

Observing a face with averted eyes results in a reflexive shift of attention to the gazed-at location. Here we present results that show that this effect is weaker in males than in females (Experiment 1). This result is predicted by the 'extreme male brain' theory of autism (Baron-Cohen, 2003), which suggests that males in the normal population should display more autism-like traits than female...

Gaze cueing of attention: visual attention, social cognition, and individual differences.

During social interactions, people's eyes convey a wealth of information about their direction of attention and their emotional and mental states. This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of past and current research into the perception of gaze behavior and its effect on the observer. This encompasses the perception of gaze direction and its influence on perception of the other pers...

Gaze cueing of attention in schizophrenia: individual differences in neuropsychological functioning and symptoms.

Inhibition of return (IOR) represents a well-known mechanism of human perception that biases attentional orienting to novel locations in the environment. Behaviorally, IOR reflects slower reaction time (RT) to stimuli presented in previously cued locations. In this study, we examined within patients with schizophrenia this inhibitory aftereffect using two different cue types--eye gaze and stand...

Gaze cueing by pareidolia faces

Visual images that are not faces are sometimes perceived as faces (the pareidolia phenomenon). While the pareidolia phenomenon provides people with a strong impression that a face is present, it is unclear how deeply pareidolia faces are processed as faces. In the present study, we examined whether a shift in spatial attention would be produced by gaze cueing of face-like objects. A robust cuei...

Affects the Gaze-cueing Effect