The effect of non-communicative eye movements on joint attention.

ABSTRACT: Eye movements provide important signals for joint attention. However, those eye movements that indicate bids for joint attention often occur among non-communicative eye movements. This study investigated the influence of these non-communicative eye movements on subsequent joint attention responsivity. Participants played an interactive game with an avatar which required both players to search for a visual target on a screen. The player who discovered the target used their eyes to initiate joint attention. We compared participants' saccadic reaction times (SRTs) to the avatar's joint attention bids when they were preceded by non-communicative eye movements that predicted the location of the target (Predictive Search), did not predict the location of the target (Random Search), and when ther

SUBMITTER: Caruana N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7672778 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature