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Eye-Gaze direction triggers a more specific attentional orienting compared to arrows
Numerous studies have shown that eye-gaze and arrows automatically shift visuospatial attention. Nonetheless, it remains unclear whether the attentional shifts triggered by these two types of stimuli differ in some important aspects. It has been suggested that an important difference may reside in h...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9876282/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36696435 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280955 |
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author | Chacón-Candia, Jeanette A. Lupiáñez, Juan Casagrande, Maria Marotta, Andrea |
author_facet | Chacón-Candia, Jeanette A. Lupiáñez, Juan Casagrande, Maria Marotta, Andrea |
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description | Numerous studies have shown that eye-gaze and arrows automatically shift visuospatial attention. Nonetheless, it remains unclear whether the attentional shifts triggered by these two types of stimuli differ in some important aspects. It has been suggested that an important difference may reside in how people select objects in response to these two types of cues, eye-gaze eliciting a more specific attentional orienting than arrows. To assess this hypothesis, we examined whether the allocation of the attentional orienting triggered by eye-gaze and arrows is modulated by the presence and the distribution of reference objects (i.e., placeholders) on the scene. Following central cues, targets were presented either in an empty visual field or within one of six placeholders on each trial. In Experiment 2, placeholder-objects were grouped following the gestalt’s law of proximity, whereas in Experiment 1, they were not perceptually grouped. Results showed that cueing one of the grouped placeholders spreads attention across the whole group of placeholder-objects when arrow cues were used, while it restricted attention to the specific cued placeholder when eye-gaze cues were used. No differences between the two types of cues were observed when placeholder-objects were not grouped within the cued hemifield, or no placeholders were displayed on the scene. These findings are consistent with the idea that socially relevant gaze cues encourage a more specific attentional orienting than arrow cues and provide new insight into the boundary conditions necessary to observe this dissociation. |
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spelling | pubmed-98762822023-01-26 Eye-Gaze direction triggers a more specific attentional orienting compared to arrows Chacón-Candia, Jeanette A. Lupiáñez, Juan Casagrande, Maria Marotta, Andrea PLoS One Research Article Numerous studies have shown that eye-gaze and arrows automatically shift visuospatial attention. Nonetheless, it remains unclear whether the attentional shifts triggered by these two types of stimuli differ in some important aspects. It has been suggested that an important difference may reside in how people select objects in response to these two types of cues, eye-gaze eliciting a more specific attentional orienting than arrows. To assess this hypothesis, we examined whether the allocation of the attentional orienting triggered by eye-gaze and arrows is modulated by the presence and the distribution of reference objects (i.e., placeholders) on the scene. Following central cues, targets were presented either in an empty visual field or within one of six placeholders on each trial. In Experiment 2, placeholder-objects were grouped following the gestalt’s law of proximity, whereas in Experiment 1, they were not perceptually grouped. Results showed that cueing one of the grouped placeholders spreads attention across the whole group of placeholder-objects when arrow cues were used, while it restricted attention to the specific cued placeholder when eye-gaze cues were used. No differences between the two types of cues were observed when placeholder-objects were not grouped within the cued hemifield, or no placeholders were displayed on the scene. These findings are consistent with the idea that socially relevant gaze cues encourage a more specific attentional orienting than arrow cues and provide new insight into the boundary conditions necessary to observe this dissociation. Public Library of Science 2023-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9876282/ /pubmed/36696435 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280955 Text en © 2023 Chacón-Candia et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Chacón-Candia, Jeanette A. Lupiáñez, Juan Casagrande, Maria Marotta, Andrea Eye-Gaze direction triggers a more specific attentional orienting compared to arrows |
title | Eye-Gaze direction triggers a more specific attentional orienting compared to arrows |
title_full | Eye-Gaze direction triggers a more specific attentional orienting compared to arrows |
title_fullStr | Eye-Gaze direction triggers a more specific attentional orienting compared to arrows |
title_full_unstemmed | Eye-Gaze direction triggers a more specific attentional orienting compared to arrows |
title_short | Eye-Gaze direction triggers a more specific attentional orienting compared to arrows |
title_sort | eye-gaze direction triggers a more specific attentional orienting compared to arrows |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9876282/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36696435 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280955 |
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