Neural bases of eye and gaze processing: the core of social cognition

RJ Itier, M Batty - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Eyes and gaze are very important stimuli for human social interactions. Recent studies
suggest that impairments in recognizing face identity, facial emotions or in inferring attention …

Visual search for arbitrary objects in real scenes

JM Wolfe, GA Alvarez, R Rosenholtz… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2011 - Springer
How efficient is visual search in real scenes? In searches for targets among arrays of
randomly placed distractors, efficiency is often indexed by the slope of the reaction time …

Perceiving crowd attention: Ensemble perception of a crowd's gaze

TD Sweeny, D Whitney - Psychological science, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
In nearly every interpersonal encounter, people readily gather socio-visual cues to guide
their behavior. Intriguingly, social information is most effective in directing behavior when it is …

[PDF][PDF] Visual search

JM Wolfe - Stevens' handbook of experimental psychology …, 2018 - search.bwh.harvard.edu
Broadly defined, visual search is the act of looking for something or a number of things. It is
reasonable, at the start of a survey of the topic, to ask why we have to search at all. Part of …

Approaches to visual search: Feature integration theory and guided search

JM Wolfe - The Oxford handbook of attention, 2014 - books.google.com
The visual world is full of objects and it is an interesting fact that we can see more of that
world than we can understand at any given moment. Thus, looking at this picture of a park …

The Stare-in-the-Crowd Effect When Navigating a Crowd in Virtual Reality

P Raimbaud, A Jovane, K Zibrek… - ACM Symposium on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Nonverbal communication is paramount in daily life, as well as in populated virtual reality
(VR) environments. In this paper, we focused on gaze behaviour, which is key to initiate and …

Attention capture by direct gaze is robust to context and task demands

A Palanica, RJ Itier - Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 2012 - Springer
Eye-tracking was used to investigate whether gaze direction would influence the visual
scanning of faces, when presented in the context of a full character, in different social …

Differential activation of frontoparietal attention networks by social and symbolic spatial cues

AD Engell, L Nummenmaa… - Social cognitive and …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Perception of both gaze-direction and symbolic directional cues (eg arrows) orient an
observer's attention toward the indicated location. It is unclear, however, whether these …

The stare-in-the-crowd effect in virtual reality

P Raimbaud, A Jovane, K Zibrek… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nonverbal cues are paramount in real-world interactions. Among these cues, gaze has
received much attention in the literature. In particular, previous work has shown a search …

The effect of face eccentricity on the perception of gaze direction

D Todorović - Perception, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
The perception of a looker's gaze direction depends not only on iris eccentricity (the position
of the looker's irises within the sclera) but also on the orientation of the lookers' head. One …