Gaze facilitates responsivity during hand coordinated joint attention.

ABSTRACT: The coordination of attention between individuals is a fundamental part of everyday human social interaction. Previous work has focused on the role of gaze information for guiding responses during joint attention episodes. However, in many contexts, hand gestures such as pointing provide another valuable source of information about the locus of attention. The current study developed a novel virtual reality paradigm to investigate the extent to which initiator gaze information is used by responders to guide joint attention responses in the presence of more visually salient and spatially precise pointing gestures. Dyads were instructed to use pointing gestures to complete a cooperative joint attention task in a virtual environment. Eye and hand tracking enabled real-time interaction and prov

SUBMITTER: Caruana N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8548595 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature