Observing Others' Gaze Direction Affects Infants' Preference for Looking at Gazing- or Gazed-at Faces.

ABSTRACT: Eye gaze is an important signal in social interactions, and it plays an important role to understand what others looking in joint attention (JA) situations. JA has been examined in situations involving two people gazing at objects; however, ecologically, infants observe not only faces that gaze at objects but also those that gaze at other people. Here, we examined how eye gaze directed toward another face affect face preferences in infants. A total of 19 children were observed during a JA situation and a no-JA situation. In the JA situation, an adult face in the central position of the screen shifted her gaze to look at another adult face at a lateral position on the screen. However, during the no JA situation, the central face shifted her eye gaze away from the adult face presented on the

SUBMITTER: Ishikawa M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6099611 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature