Why are you looking at me? It's because I'm talking, but mostly because I'm staring or not doing much.

ABSTRACT: Our attention is particularly driven toward faces, especially the eyes, and there is much debate over the factors that modulate this social attentional orienting. Most of the previous research has presented faces in isolation, and we tried to address this shortcoming by measuring people's eye movements whilst they observe more naturalistic and varied social interactions. Participants' eye movements were monitored whilst they watched three different types of social interactions (monologue, manual activity, active attentional misdirection), which were either accompanied by the corresponding audio as speech or by silence. Our results showed that (1) participants spent more time looking at the face when the person was giving a monologue, than when he/she was carrying out manual activities, and

SUBMITTER: Scott H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6315010 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature