Infants' use of gaze direction to cue attention: The importance of perceived motion

Farroni, Teresa; Johnson, Mark H.; Brockbank, Margaret; Simion, Francesca

doi:10.1080/13506280050144399

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“…One possible explanation of this discrepancy relies upon the differences between the two paradigms. First, gaze processing might have been facilitated in Vuilleumier's study by the face context; second, attention orienting was triggered by moving eyes that are a much stronger cue compared with static eyes because they also convey a motion cue, as demonstrated in infants (Farroni, Johnson, Brockbank, & Simion, 2000). The crucial finding, however, is that the effect of arrow cues in neglect patients consistently resembled patterns previously described as characterizing peripheral noninformative cues (for a thorough review, see Losier & Klein, 2001).…”

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Normal and Impaired Reflexive Orienting of Attention after Central Nonpredictive Cues

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Marenzi

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Abstract& Recent studies suggest that stimuli with directional meaning can trigger lateral shifts of visuospatial attention when centrally presented as noninformative cues. We investigated covert orienting in healthy participants and in a group of 17 right braindamaged patients (9 with hemispatial neglect) comparing arrows, eye gaze, and digits as central nonpredictive cues in a detection task. Orienting effects elicited by arrows and eye gaze were overall consistent in healthy participants and in right braindamaged patients, whereas digit cues were ineffective. Moreover, patients with neglect showed, at the shortest delay between cue and target, a disengage deficit for arrow cueing whose magnitude was predicted by neglect severity. We conclude that the peculiar form of attentional orienting triggered by the directional meaning of arrow cues presents some features previously thought to characterize only the stimulus-driven (exogenous) orienting to noninformative peripheral cues. &

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Normal and Impaired Reflexive Orienting of Attention after Central Nonpredictive Cues

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Marenzi

et al. 2009

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…First, Ristic, Friesen, and Kingstone (2002) found that preschool children showed greater orienting effects than adults in response to nonpredictive gaze-direction cues, despite the fact that young children are thought to be poor at volitional orienting (Brodeur, Trick, & Enns, 1997). Second, Hood, Willen, and Driver (1998) found that infants were faster to make saccades to peripheral targets that were cued nonpredictively by the gaze direction of a central face and concluded that gaze-triggered orienting is in place very early in development (but see Farroni, Johnson, Brockbank, & Simion, 2000, for an alternative explanation). Third, in their split-brain patient study, Kingstone et al (2000) found that although only the cortical hemisphere specialized for face and gaze processing oriented reflexively in response to nonpredictive gaze cues, both hemispheres oriented volitionally in response to predictive gaze cues.…”

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Attentional Effects of Counterpredictive Gaze and Arrow Cues.

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2004

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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The authors used counterpredictive cues to examine reflexive and volitional orienting to eyes and arrows. Experiment 1 investigated the effects of eyes with a novel design that allowed for a comparison of gazed-at (cued) target locations and likely (predicted) target locations against baseline locations that were not cued and not predicted. Attention shifted reflexively to the cued location and volitionally to the predicted location, and these 2 forms of orienting overlapped in time. Experiment 2 discovered that another well-learned directional stimulus, an arrow, produced a different effect: Attention was shifted only volitionally to the predicted location. The authors suggest that because there is a neural architecture specialized for processing eyes, gaze-triggered attention is more strongly reflexive than orienting to arrows.

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“…In the case of the gaze-cueing effect, the role of more complex dynamic stimuli is subtle. In infants, motion appears to be necessary for gaze orienting (Farroni, Johnson, Brockbank, & Simion, 2000). Nonetheless, neither photographic faces nor dynamic movement in gaze cues have been shown to increase the magnitude of the gaze cueing effect with adults (Hietanen & Leppänen, 2003).…”

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Visual attention and action: How cueing, direct mapping, and social interactions drive orienting

2017

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Despite considerable interest in both action perception and social attention over the last 2 decades, there has been surprisingly little investigation concerning how the manual actions of other humans orient visual attention. The present review draws together studies that have measured the orienting of attention, following observation of another's goal-directed action. Our review proposes that, in line with the literature on eye gaze, action is a particularly strong orienting cue for the visual system. However, we additionally suggest that action may orient visual attention using mechanisms, which gaze direction does not (i.e., neural direct mapping and corepresentation). Finally, we review the implications of these gaze-independent mechanisms for the study of attention to action. We suggest that our understanding of attention to action may benefit from being studied in the context of joint action paradigms, where the role of higher level action goals and social factors can be investigated.

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Infants' use of gaze direction to cue attention: The importance of perceived motion

Cited by 236 publications

References 11 publications

Normal and Impaired Reflexive Orienting of Attention after Central Nonpredictive Cues

Normal and Impaired Reflexive Orienting of Attention after Central Nonpredictive Cues

Attentional Effects of Counterpredictive Gaze and Arrow Cues.

Visual attention and action: How cueing, direct mapping, and social interactions drive orienting

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