Gaze And Cognitive Processing

The neural basis of eye gaze processing

Humans are highly sensitive to another's gaze direction, and use this information to support a range of social cognitive functions. Here we review recent studies that have begun to delineate a neural system for gaze perception. We focus in particular on a set of core gaze processes: perceptual coding of another's eye gaze direction, which may involve anterior superior temporal sulcus (STS ...

Referential gaze has been shown to benefit language processing in situated communication in terms of shifting visual attention and leading to shorter reaction times on subsequent tasks. The present study simultaneously assessed both visual attention and , importantly, the immediate cognitive load induced at different stages of sentence processing .

Uncovering the cognitive mechanisms underlying the gaze cueing effect ...

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The gaze cueing effect is the tendency for people to respond faster to targets appearing at locations gazed at by others, compared with locations gazed away from by others. The effect is robust, widely studied, and is an influential finding within social cognition. Formal evidence accumulation models provide the dominant theoretical account of the cognitive processes underlying speeded ...

The use of gaze to study cognition

The study of gaze responses, typically using looking time paradigms, has become a popular approach to improving our understanding of cognitive processes in non-verbal individuals. Our interpretation of data derived from these paradigms, however, is ...