Visual cognition during real social interaction

Skarratt, Paul A.; Cole, Geoff G.; Kuhn, Gustav

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00196

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“…Such studies have led to some revisions of what is known about visual attention (see Skarratt, Cole, & Kuhn, 2012, for an extensive review). For instance, gaze cues were for a long time assumed to be unable to induce inhibition of return (IOR; Posner & Cohen, 1984).…”

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Mental state attribution and the gaze cueing effect

Cole

Smith

Atkinson

2015

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Theory of mind is said to be possessed by an individual if he or she is able to impute mental states to others. Recently, some authors have demonstrated that such mental state attributions can mediate the Bgaze cueing^effect, in which observation of another individual shifts an observer's attention. One question that follows from this work is whether such mental state attributions produce mandatory modulations of gaze cueing. Employing the basic gaze cueing paradigm, together with a technique commonly used to assess mentalstate attribution in nonhuman animals, we manipulated whether the gazing agent could see the same thing as the participant (i.e., the target) or had this view obstructed by a physical barrier. We found robust gaze cueing effects, even when the observed agent in the display could not see the same thing as the participant. These results suggest that the attribution of Bseeing^does not necessarily modulate the gaze cueing effect.

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Mental state attribution and the gaze cueing effect

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2015

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“…A final concern for this field, as suggested by research on gaze selection and joint action, is the need to understand attention to action in ecologically valid contexts (see Skarratt et al, 2012). This approach has the ability to underscore the pervasiveness of effects observed in the lab yet also reveal subtleties that were not previously apparent.…”

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“…Taken in conjunction with the findings of Welsh, Ray, et al (2009), these findings suggest that when visual transients are restricted, the effect is sensitive to manipulations of social or interactive context, as well as being dissociable in populations with atypically developing traits in social interaction. This has led to the term social IOR being applied to the between-person IOR effect (Skarratt, Cole, & Kuhn, 2012), implying an IOR effect that is necessitated by some level of social interaction.…”

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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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“…Furthermore, the fact that only a few studies have shown IOR induced by central cues may suggest that many failed to find such an effect and consequently did not submit the work for publication. However, it is becoming clear from the dozens of experiments published to 10 date that IOR can be generated robustly and more generically with a central cue if the cue is a real individual that interacts with the participant, an effect termed 'between-participant' IOR (Welsh et al, 2005; or 'social' IOR (Skarratt, Cole, & Kingstone, 2010;Skarratt, Cole, & Kuhn, 2012).…”

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Real Person Interaction in Visual Attention Research

Cole

Skarratt

Kuhn

2016

European Psychologist

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2An important development in cognitive psychology in the past decade has been the examination of visual attention during real social interaction. This contrasts traditional laboratory studies of attention, including 'social attention', in which observers perform tasks alone. In this review we show that although the lone-observer method has been central to attention research, real-person interaction paradigms have not only uncovered the processes that occur during 'joint attention' but have also revealed attentional processes previously thought not to occur. Furthermore, the examination of some visual attention processes almost invariably requires the use of real-person paradigms. Whilst we do not argue for an increase in 'ecological validity' for its own sake, we do suggest that research using real person interaction has greatly benefited the development of visual attention theories.

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Visual cognition during real social interaction

Cited by 39 publications

References 127 publications

Mental state attribution and the gaze cueing effect

Mental state attribution and the gaze cueing effect

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

Real Person Interaction in Visual Attention Research

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