Visual Fixation Patterns During Viewing of Half-Face Stimuli in Adults: An Eye-Tracking Study.

ABSTRACT: Human faces play a special role in social cognition, since as a core signal of interpersonal communication, they convey various kinds of information (e.g., about sex, age, race, emotions, intentions). Study 1 aimed to explore how this specialization manifests itself in eye movements when looking at neutral, static, female faces. We monitored the gaze pattern of 23 adult participants using eye-tracking method. To test if template-driven processes are involved in face perception, and to see how inversion affects fixations on special facial stimuli, we presented vertically cut half-faces in upright and inverted positions (so half of each stimulus represented a half-face, whereas the other half was left blank). Our results corroborate prior findings consistently demonstrating the dominance of

SUBMITTER: Galambos A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6297881 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature