The Role of Global and Local Visual Information during Gaze-Cued Orienting of Attention.

ABSTRACT: Gaze direction is an important social communication tool. Global and local visual information are known to play specific roles in processing socially relevant information from a face. The current study investigated whether global visual information has a primary role during gaze-cued orienting of attention and, as such, may influence quality of interaction. Adults performed a gaze-cueing task in which a centrally presented face cued (valid or invalid) the location of a peripheral target through a gaze shift. We measured brain activity (electroencephalography) towards the cue and target and behavioral responses (manual and saccadic reaction times) towards the target. The faces contained global (i.e. lower spatial frequencies), local (i.e. higher spatial frequencies), or a selection of both

SUBMITTER: Munsters NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4999176 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature