Although a large proportion of our lives are spent participating in social interactions, the
investigation of the neural mechanisms supporting these interactions has largely been …

Paying attention to faces is of special interest for humans as well as for scientific research.
The experimental manipulation of facial information offers an ecologically valid approach to …

Linking back to, the present approach conceptualizes and empirically examines viewers'
parasocial interaction experience with a TV performer. Causes and outcomes of parasocial …

Research in cognitive science typically places a boundary between participants and the
stimuli they are asked to process. While this separation affords experimental control, it can …

Social interactions involve complex exchanges of a variety of social signals, such as gaze,
facial expressions, speech and gestures. Focusing on the dual function of eye gaze, this …

The perception of direct gaze—that is, of another individual's gaze directed at the observer—
is known to influence a wide range of cognitive processes and behaviors. We present a new …

Enactive approaches foreground the role of interpersonal interaction in explanations of
social understanding. This motivates, in combination with a recent interest in neuroscientific …

Cognitive neuroscientists often study social cognition by using simple but socially relevant
stimuli, such as schematic faces or images of other people. Whilst this research is valuable …

Background Previous studies have shown promising results in identifying individuals with
autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by applying machine learning (ML) to eye-tracking data …

Eye contact has a fundamental role in human social interaction. The special appearance of
the human eye (ie, white sclera contrasted with a coloured iris) implies the importance of …