Beliefs about human agency influence the neural processing of gaze during joint attention

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 194-206

  Caruana, Nathan ^a,b,c   de Lissa, Peter ^a,b   McArthur, Genevieve ^a,b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN COGNITION AND ITS DISORDERS   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

agency; eye gaze; Joint attention; social interaction; virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; GAZE; HUMAN; JOINT; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VIRTUAL REALITY; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; BRAIN; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OCULOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84961390916     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2016.1160953     Document Type: Article

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