Thinking eyes: visual thinking strategies and the social brain.

ABSTRACT: The foundation of art processes in the social brain can guide the scientific study of how human beings perceive and interact with their environment. Here, we applied the theoretical frameworks of the social and artistic brain connectomes to an eye-tracking paradigm with the aim to elucidate how different viewing conditions and social cues influence gaze patterns and personal resonance with artworks and complex imagery in healthy adults. We compared two viewing conditions that encourage personal or social perspective taking-modeled on the well-known Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) method-to a viewing condition during which only contextual information about the image was provided. Our findings showed that the viewing conditions that used VTS techniques directed the gaze more toward highly s

SUBMITTER: van Leeuwen JEP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10565500 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature