Two psychophysical experiments are reported, one dealing with the visual perception of the head orientation of another person (the “looker”) and the other dealing with the perception of the looker’s direction of eye gaze. The participant viewed the looker with different retinal eccentricities ranging from foveal to far peripheral viewing. On average, judgments of head orientation were reliable ...

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The current work examines the phenomenon of Virtual Interpersonal Touch (VIT), people touching one another via force-feedback haptic devices. As collaborative virtual environments become utilized more effectively, it is only natural that interactants will have the ability to touch one another. In the current work, we used relatively basic devices to begin to explore the expression of emotion th...

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we investigated brain activity evoked by mutual and averted gaze in a compelling and commonly experienced social encounter. Through virtual-reality goggles, subjects viewed a man who walked toward them and shifted his neutral gaze either toward (mutual gaze) or away (averted gaze) from them. Robust activity was evoked in the superior temporal ...

s of invited lectures Workshop Proceedings Page 5 Abstracts of invited lectures SESSION ON PATHOGENESIS Gene Expression Profiles in Canine Lymphoma Kristy L. Richards Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 E-mail: [email protected] Canine B-cell lymphoma mimics the human disease in several fundamental ways, including his...

Research using the public goods game to examine behaviour in the context of social dilemmas has repeatedly shown substantial individual differences in patterns of contributions to the public good. We present here a new method specifically designed to capture this heterogeneity in play and classify participants into broad categories or types. Players in groups of four made initial, simultaneous ...

It seems undeniable that the digital revolution we are experiencing nowadays has several implications in the current systems of learning and training. In this context, e-learning may provide a better and innovative way to "learning at an accelerated rhythm" and to "transforming information into knowledge". Nevertheless, changes in pedagogical theories have already occurred for some time focusin...

rational thought. But if the brain decides that the information is threatening, it literally shuts down the processing of the higher mental processes through the release of catecholamine neurotransmitters which also turn on the action of the emotional brain to react quickly and efficiently to threats. This processing hierarchy evolved to help people survive fight or flight kinds of challenges, ...

Gaze direction is a vital communicative channel through which people transmit information to each other. By signaling the locus of social attention, gaze cues convey information about the relative importance of objects, including other people, in the environment. For the most part, this information is communicated via patterns of gaze direction, with gaze shifts signaling changes in the objects...