Social orienting in gaze leading: A mechanism for shared attention

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1812, 2015, Pages

  Gareth Edwards, S ^a   Stephenson, Lisa J ^a   Dalmaso, Mario ^b   Bayliss, Andrew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gaze perception; Joint attention; Shared attention; Social cognition; Social orienting

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937394106     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1141     Document Type: Article

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