Looking ahead: Anticipatory cueing of attention to objects others will look at

Joyce, Katherine, Schenke, Kimberley, Bayliss, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4810-7758 and Bach, Patric (2016) Looking ahead: Anticipatory cueing of attention to objects others will look at. Cognitive Neuroscience, 7 (1-4). pp. 74-81. ISSN 1758-8928

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Abstract

Seeing a face gaze at an object elicits rapid attention shifts towards the same object. We tested whether gaze cuing is predictive: do people shift their attention towards objects others are merely expected to look at? Participants categorized objects while a face either looked at this object, at another object, or straight ahead. Unbeknownst to participants, one face would only look at drinks and the other at foods. We tested whether attention was drawn towards objects “favoured” by a face even when currently looking straight ahead. Indeed, while gaze expectations initially had a disruptive effect, participants did shift attention to the faces‟ favoured objects once learning had been established, as long as emotional expressions had indicated personal relevance of the object to the individual. These data support predictive models of social perception, which assume that predictions can drive perception and action, as if these stimuli were directly perceived.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	gaze cueing,joint attention,predictive coding,prediction,attention,action observation
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Social Cognition Research Group Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Cognition, Action and Perception
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	28 Jan 2016 13:05
Last Modified:	19 Apr 2023 00:41
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/56839
DOI:	10.1080/17588928.2015.1053443

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