Social Saliency of the Cue Slows Attention Shifts

Eye gaze is a powerful cue that indicates where another person’s attention is directed in the environment. Seeing another person’s eye gaze shift spontaneously and reflexively elicits a shift of one’s own attention to the same region in space. Here, we investigated whether reallocation of attention...

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Main Authors: Vassiki Chauhan, Matteo Visconti di Oleggio Castello, Alireza Soltani, Maria Ida Gobbini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00738/full