Exploring the relationship between oculomotor preparation and gaze-cued covert shifts in attention.

ABSTRACT: Eye gaze plays dual perceptual and social roles in everyday life. Gaze allows us to select information, while also indicating to others where we are attending. There are situations, however, where revealing the locus of our attention is not adaptive, such as when playing competitive sports or confronting an aggressor. It is in these circumstances that covert shifts in attention are assumed to play an essential role. Despite this assumption, few studies have explored the relationship between covert shifts in attention and eye movements within social contexts. In the present study, we explore this relationship using the saccadic dual-task in combination with the gaze-cueing paradigm. Across two experiments, participants prepared an eye movement or fixated centrally. At the same time, spatial

SUBMITTER: Parker S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10067775 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature