Is there a direct link between gaze perception and joint attention behaviours? Effects of gaze contrast polarity on oculomotor behaviour

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 194, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 347-357

  Ricciardelli, Paola ^a   Betta, Elena ^b   Pruner, Sonia ^b   Turatto, Massimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eye Gaze; Gaze perception; Joint attention; Oculomotor behaviour; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; GAZE; GAZE CONTRAST POLARITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT ATTENTION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULOGRAPHY; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63949086932     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-1706-8     Document Type: Article

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