The influence of joint attention and partner trustworthiness on cross-modal sensory cueing.

ABSTRACT: Joint attention refers to the coordinated attention between social partners to an object of shared interest, usually involving shared gaze toward the object. In the laboratory, however, joint attention is often investigated using computerized gaze cueing tasks that do not allow shared gaze. Instead, these computerized tasks require the participant to maintain fixation on the virtual partner's face, while the partner gazes to the left or right. Here we designed a modified gaze cueing task that better simulates a natural joint attention episode by allowing shared gaze, while still maintaining tight experimental control. In our computerized task the participant's gaze and the gaze of a virtual partner were manipulated independently, resulting in shared or unshared gaze. Following each gaze sh

SUBMITTER: de Jong MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7611768 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature