“…As eccentricity increases and visual acuity decreases, perception of eye cues should become more difficult, and thus error rates and RTs should increase. Based on the visual search literature (e.g., Conty et al, 2006;Doi & Ueda, 2007;Doi et al, 2009;Senju et al, 2005;Shirama, 2012;von Grünau & Anston, 1995), we predicted that direct gaze faces would be discriminated faster and more accurately than averted gaze faces (across head orientations) in central vision, where gaze discrimination is accurate. Based on the gaze perception literature (e.g., Langton, 2000;Seyama & Nagayama, 2005;Itier et al, 2007aItier et al, , 2007bTodorović, 2009), we also predicted congruency effects between head and gaze directions, such that direct gaze discrimination should be fastest in frontal heads while that of averted gaze should be fastest in deviated heads.…”