Given limitations in the amount of visual information that a person can simultaneously
process through to conscious perception, selective visual attention is necessary. Visual …

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 …

Past research has found that mindfulness meditation training improves executive attention.
Event-related potentials (ERPs) have indicated that this effect could be driven by more …

Social attention is conveyed primarily by gaze, but also by head and body orientation. These
cues not only signal a seen agent's direction of attention but are also used to infer their …

When two people look at the same object in the environment and are aware of each other's
attentional state, they find themselves in a shared-attention episode. This can occur through …

We assessed the automaticity of emotional face processing with respect to the intentionality
criterion, holding that automatic processes are triggered independently of intention. For this …

Macaques, like humans, rapidly orient their attention in the direction other individuals are
looking. Both cortical and subcortical pathways have been proposed as neural mediators of …

Exogenous orienting has been widely studied by using peripheral cues whereas
endogenous orienting has been studied with directional central cues. However, recent …

The impact of emotions on gaze-oriented attention was investigated in non-anxious
participants. A neutral face cue with straight gaze was presented, which then averted its …

The automaticity of gaze-induced joint attention is well known in relatively easy cognitive
tasks; but its role in harder tasks had never been examined. This encouraged us to study …