Are there quantitative differences between eye-gaze and arrow cues? A meta-analytic answer to the debate and a call for qualitative differences

JA Chacón-Candia, R Román-Caballero… - Neuroscience & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Gaze acts from an early age as a cue to orient attention and, thereafter, to infer our social
partners' intentions, thoughts, and emotions. Variants of the attentional orienting paradigm …

What gaze adds to arrows: Changes in attentional response to gaze versus arrows in childhood and adolescence

B Aranda‐Martín… - British Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
From early ages, gaze acts as a cue to infer the interests, behaviours, thoughts and
emotions of social partners. Despite sharing attentional properties with other non‐social …

Affective priming enhances gaze cueing effect.

M Ishikawa, JX Haensel, TJ Smith… - Journal of …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Other's gaze direction triggers a reflexive shift of attention known as the gaze cueing effect.
Fearful facial expressions are further reported to enhance the gaze cueing effect, but it …

Eye-gaze direction triggers a more specific attentional orienting compared to arrows

JA Chacón-Candia, J Lupiáñez, M Casagrande… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Numerous studies have shown that eye-gaze and arrows automatically shift visuospatial
attention. Nonetheless, it remains unclear whether the attentional shifts triggered by these …

Social information rapidly prioritizes overt but not covert attention in a joint spatial cueing task

MS Gobel, B Giesbrecht - Acta Psychologica, 2020 - Elsevier
Coordinating actions with others is crucial for our survival. Our ability to see what others are
seeing and to align our visual attention with them facilitates these joint actions. In the present …

The role of eye movements in manual responses to social and nonsocial cues

C Bonmassar, F Pavani, W van Zoest - Attention, Perception, & …, 2019 - Springer
Gaze and arrow cues cause covert attention shifts even when they are uninformative.
Nonetheless, it is unclear to what extent oculomotor behavior influences manual responses …

The role of perspective taking on attention: a review of the special issue on the reflexive attentional shift phenomenon

G Pesimena, CJ Wilson, M Bertamini, A Soranzo - Vision, 2019 - mdpi.com
Attention is a process that alters how cognitive resources are allocated, and it allows
individuals to efficiently process information at the attended location. The presence of visual …

Prioritization of social information processing: Eye gaze elicits earlier vMMN than arrows

Y Huang, W Shen, S Fu - Neuropsychologia, 2024 - Elsevier
Numerous research studies have demonstrated that eye gaze and arrows act as cues that
automatically guide spatial attention. However, it remains uncertain whether the attention …

The misrepresentation of spatial uncertainty in visual search: Single-versus joint-distribution probability cues

BS Gibson, JR Pauszek, JM Trost… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2021 - Springer
The present study used information theory to quantify the extent to which different spatial
cues conveyed the entropy associated with the identity and location of a visual search target …

Contextually-based social attention diverges across covert and overt measures

EJ Pereira, E Birmingham, J Ristic - Vision, 2019 - mdpi.com
Humans spontaneously attend to social cues like faces and eyes. However, recent data
show that this behavior is significantly weakened when visual content, such as luminance …