Is gaze following purely reflexive or goal-directed instead? Revisiting the automaticity of orienting attention by gaze cues

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 93-106

  Ricciardelli, Paola ^a   Carcagno, Samuele ^b   Vallar, Giuseppe ^a,c   Bricolo, Emanuela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Gaze following; Goal driven and stimulus driven attention; Joint attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA REFLEX; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872313472     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3291-5     Document Type: Article

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