Gaze-induced joint attention persists under high perceptual load and does not depend on awareness

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 2048-2056

  Xu, Shan ^a   Zhang, Shen ^b   Geng, Haiyan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Gaze processing; Interocular suppression; Joint attention; Unconsciousness; Visual awareness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FACE; FEMALE; GAZE; GAZE INDUCED JOINT ATTENTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTUAL LOAD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052647748     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.07.023     Document Type: Article

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