In humans, direct gaze typically signals a deliberate attempt to communicate with an
observer. An auditory signal with similar signal value is calling someone's name. We …

The perception of another individual's gaze direction is not a low-level, stimulus-driven
visual process but a higher-level process that can be top-down modulated, for example, by …

Our attention is particularly driven toward faces, especially the eyes, and there is much
debate over the factors that modulate this social attentional orienting. Most of the previous …

Gaze allocation to human faces has recently been shown to be greatly dependent on the
social context. However, what has not been considered explicitly here, is how gaze …

Recent studies have shown that cueing eye gaze can affect the processing of visual
information, and this phenomenon is called the gaze-orienting effect (visual-GOE). Emerging …

During face-to-face conversation the face provides auditory and visual linguistic information,
and also conveys information about the identity of the speaker. This study investigated …

Cognitive scientists have long been interested in the role that eye gaze plays in social
interactions. Previous research suggests that gaze acts as a signaling mechanism and can …

In human face-to-face communication, language comprehension is a multi-modal, situated
activity. However, little is known about how we combine information from different modalities …

Ears cannot speak, lips cannot hear, but eyes can both signal and perceive. For human
beings, this dual function makes the eyes a remarkable tool for social interaction. For …

Several past studies have considered how perceived head orientation may be combined
with perceived gaze direction in judging where someone else is attending. In three …