Detecting communicative intent in a computerised test of joint attention.

ABSTRACT: The successful navigation of social interactions depends on a range of cognitive faculties-including the ability to achieve joint attention with others to share information and experiences. We investigated the influence that intention monitoring processes have on gaze-following response times during joint attention. We employed a virtual reality task in which 16 healthy adults engaged in a collaborative game with a virtual partner to locate a target in a visual array. In the Search task, the virtual partner was programmed to engage in non-communicative gaze shifts in search of the target, establish eye contact, and then display a communicative gaze shift to guide the participant to the target. In the NoSearch task, the virtual partner simply established eye contact and then m

SUBMITTER: Caruana N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5244879 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature