CAN WE RESIST ANOTHER PERSON'S GAZE?
Adaptive adjustments of strategies are needed to optimize behaviour in a dynamic and uncertain world. A key function in implementing flexible behaviour and exerting self-control is represented by the ability to stop the execution of an action when it is no longer appropriate for the environmental re...
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| author | Barbara Francesca Marta Marino GIOVANNI eMIRABELLA GIOVANNI eMIRABELLA Rossana eActis-Grosso Emanuela eBricolo Paola eRicciardelli |
| author_facet | Barbara Francesca Marta Marino GIOVANNI eMIRABELLA GIOVANNI eMIRABELLA Rossana eActis-Grosso Emanuela eBricolo Paola eRicciardelli |
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| description | Adaptive adjustments of strategies are needed to optimize behaviour in a dynamic and uncertain world. A key function in implementing flexible behaviour and exerting self-control is represented by the ability to stop the execution of an action when it is no longer appropriate for the environmental requests. Importantly, stimuli in our environment are not equally relevant and some are more valuable than others. One example is the gaze of other people, which is known to convey important social information about their direction of attention and their emotional and mental states. Indeed, gaze direction has a significant impact on the execution of voluntary saccades of an observer since it is capable of inducing in the observer an automatic gaze following behaviour: a phenomenon named social or joint attention. Nevertheless, people can exert volitional inhibitory control on saccadic eye movements both during their initiation and their planning. Little is known about the interaction between gaze direction signals and volitional inhibition of saccades. To fill this gap, we administered a countermanding task to 15 healthy participants in which they were asked to observe the eye region of a face with the eyes shut appearing at central fixation. In one condition, participants were required |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c9214179c0bf43a9b6b878f468e78a112022-12-22T02:20:05ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience1662-51532015-09-01910.3389/fnbeh.2015.00258149505CAN WE RESIST ANOTHER PERSON'S GAZE?Barbara Francesca Marta Marino0GIOVANNI eMIRABELLA1GIOVANNI eMIRABELLA2Rossana eActis-Grosso3Emanuela eBricolo4Paola eRicciardelli5University of of Milano – BicoccaIRCSS Neuromed HospitalLa Sapienza UniversityUniversity of of Milano – BicoccaUniversity of of Milano – BicoccaUniversity of of Milano – BicoccaAdaptive adjustments of strategies are needed to optimize behaviour in a dynamic and uncertain world. A key function in implementing flexible behaviour and exerting self-control is represented by the ability to stop the execution of an action when it is no longer appropriate for the environmental requests. Importantly, stimuli in our environment are not equally relevant and some are more valuable than others. One example is the gaze of other people, which is known to convey important social information about their direction of attention and their emotional and mental states. Indeed, gaze direction has a significant impact on the execution of voluntary saccades of an observer since it is capable of inducing in the observer an automatic gaze following behaviour: a phenomenon named social or joint attention. Nevertheless, people can exert volitional inhibitory control on saccadic eye movements both during their initiation and their planning. Little is known about the interaction between gaze direction signals and volitional inhibition of saccades. To fill this gap, we administered a countermanding task to 15 healthy participants in which they were asked to observe the eye region of a face with the eyes shut appearing at central fixation. In one condition, participants were requiredhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00258/fullsocial attentionSaccadic eye movementsbehavioral flexibilitycountermanding taskvoluntary motor controlSaccadic inhibition |
| spellingShingle | Barbara Francesca Marta Marino GIOVANNI eMIRABELLA GIOVANNI eMIRABELLA Rossana eActis-Grosso Emanuela eBricolo Paola eRicciardelli CAN WE RESIST ANOTHER PERSON'S GAZE? Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience social attention Saccadic eye movements behavioral flexibility countermanding task voluntary motor control Saccadic inhibition |
| title | CAN WE RESIST ANOTHER PERSON'S GAZE? |
| title_full | CAN WE RESIST ANOTHER PERSON'S GAZE? |
| title_fullStr | CAN WE RESIST ANOTHER PERSON'S GAZE? |
| title_full_unstemmed | CAN WE RESIST ANOTHER PERSON'S GAZE? |
| title_short | CAN WE RESIST ANOTHER PERSON'S GAZE? |
| title_sort | can we resist another person 39 s gaze |
| topic | social attention Saccadic eye movements behavioral flexibility countermanding task voluntary motor control Saccadic inhibition |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00258/full |
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