Lateral presentation of faces alters overall viewing strategy.

ABSTRACT: Eye tracking has been used during face categorisation and identification tasks to identify perceptually salient facial features and infer underlying cognitive processes. However, viewing patterns are influenced by a variety of gaze biases, drawing fixations to the centre of a screen and horizontally to the left side of face images (left-gaze bias). In order to investigate potential interactions between gaze biases uniquely associated with facial expression processing, and those associated with screen location, face stimuli were presented in three possible screen positions to the left, right and centre. Comparisons of fixations between screen locations highlight a significant impact of the screen centre bias, pulling fixations towards the centre of the screen and modifying gaze biases gener

SUBMITTER: Luke CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4958001 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature