The appearance of faces can be strongly affected by the characteristics of faces viewed
previously. These perceptual after-effects reflect processes of sensory adaptation that are …

In general, individuals look where they attend and next intend to act. Many animals,
including our own species, use observed gaze as a deictic (“pointing”) cue to guide …

Visual coding is a highly dynamic process and continuously adapting to the current viewing
context. The perceptual changes that result from adaptation to recently viewed stimuli …

Social attention is conveyed primarily by gaze, but also by head and body orientation. These
cues not only signal a seen agent's direction of attention but are also used to infer their …

When two people look at the same object in the environment and are aware of each other's
attentional state, they find themselves in a shared-attention episode. This can occur through …

Face pareidolia is the phenomenon of seeing facelike structures in everyday objects. Here,
we tested the hypothesis that face pareidolia, rather than being limited to a cognitive or …

Context Conduct disorder (CD) is characterized by severe antisocial behavior that emerges
in childhood (early-onset CD [EO-CD]) or adolescence (adolescence-onset CD [AO-CD]) …

A current consensus views social perception as a bottom-up process in which the human
brain uses social signals to make inferences about another's mental state. Here we propose …

Gaze direction is an important social signal in both human and nonhuman primates,
providing information about conspecifics' attention, interests, and intentions [1–4]. Single …

Faces are a rich source of information about the people around us. Identity, state of mind,
emotions, intentions, age, gender, ethnic background, attractiveness and a host of other …