Perceiving where another person is looking: The integration of head and body information in estimating another person’s gaze.
The process through which an observer allocates his/her attention based on the attention of another person is known as joint attention. To be able to do this, the observer effectively has to compute where the other person is looking. It has been shown that observers integrate information from the he...
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| author | Pieter eMoors Filip eGermeys Filip eGermeys Iwona ePomianowska Karl eVerfaillie |
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| description | The process through which an observer allocates his/her attention based on the attention of another person is known as joint attention. To be able to do this, the observer effectively has to compute where the other person is looking. It has been shown that observers integrate information from the head and the eyes to determine the gaze of another person. Most studies have documented that observers show a bias called the overshoot effect when eyes and head are misaligned. The present study addresses whether body information is also used as a cue to compute perceived gaze direction. In Experiment 1, we observed a similar overshoot effect in both behavioral and saccadic responses when manipulating body orientation. In Experiment 2, we explored whether the overshoot effect was due to observers assuming that the eyes are oriented further than the head when head and body orientation are misaligned. We removed horizontal eye information by presenting the stimulus from a side view. Head orientation was now manipulated in a vertical direction and the overshoot effect was replicated. In summary, this study shows that body orientation is indeed used as a cue to determine where another person is looking. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2273d971355b46c3afcea92915d7cecd2022-12-22T03:31:09ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782015-06-01610.3389/fpsyg.2015.00909144934Perceiving where another person is looking: The integration of head and body information in estimating another person’s gaze.Pieter eMoors0Filip eGermeys1Filip eGermeys2Iwona ePomianowska3Karl eVerfaillie4KU LeuvenKU LeuvenKU LeuvenThe Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and TheatreKU LeuvenThe process through which an observer allocates his/her attention based on the attention of another person is known as joint attention. To be able to do this, the observer effectively has to compute where the other person is looking. It has been shown that observers integrate information from the head and the eyes to determine the gaze of another person. Most studies have documented that observers show a bias called the overshoot effect when eyes and head are misaligned. The present study addresses whether body information is also used as a cue to compute perceived gaze direction. In Experiment 1, we observed a similar overshoot effect in both behavioral and saccadic responses when manipulating body orientation. In Experiment 2, we explored whether the overshoot effect was due to observers assuming that the eyes are oriented further than the head when head and body orientation are misaligned. We removed horizontal eye information by presenting the stimulus from a side view. Head orientation was now manipulated in a vertical direction and the overshoot effect was replicated. In summary, this study shows that body orientation is indeed used as a cue to determine where another person is looking.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00909/fullgaze perceptionsocial attentionjoint attentionhead-body orientationimplied motionOvershoot effect |
| spellingShingle | Pieter eMoors Filip eGermeys Filip eGermeys Iwona ePomianowska Karl eVerfaillie Perceiving where another person is looking: The integration of head and body information in estimating another person’s gaze. Frontiers in Psychology gaze perception social attention joint attention head-body orientation implied motion Overshoot effect |
| title | Perceiving where another person is looking: The integration of head and body information in estimating another person’s gaze. |
| title_full | Perceiving where another person is looking: The integration of head and body information in estimating another person’s gaze. |
| title_fullStr | Perceiving where another person is looking: The integration of head and body information in estimating another person’s gaze. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perceiving where another person is looking: The integration of head and body information in estimating another person’s gaze. |
| title_short | Perceiving where another person is looking: The integration of head and body information in estimating another person’s gaze. |
| title_sort | perceiving where another person is looking the integration of head and body information in estimating another person s gaze |
| topic | gaze perception social attention joint attention head-body orientation implied motion Overshoot effect |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00909/full |
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