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Farroni, Teresa; Massaccesi, Stefano; Menon, Enrica; Johnson, Mark H. – Cognition, 2007
From birth, infants prefer to look at faces that engage them in direct eye contact. In adults, direct gaze is known to modulate the processing of faces, including the recognition of individuals. In the present study, we investigate whether direction of gaze has any effect on face recognition in four-month-old infants. Four-month infants were shown…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Infants, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Recognition (Psychology)
Brannstrom, Lauritz – 1980
The significance of spatial factors on an initial segmentation and an active attentional phase was demonstrated by briefly exposing spatial configurations of elements, and then asking the subjects to reproduce the patterns or to search them for a target letter. The stimulus displays consisted of small o's forming different spatial configurations,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Dimensional Preference, Eye Movements, Patterned Responses
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Okada, Takashi; Sato, Wataru; Toichi, Motomi – Brain and Cognition, 2006
Recent findings suggest a right hemispheric dominance in gaze-triggered shifts of attention. The aim of this study was to clarify the dominant hemisphere in the gaze processing that mediates attentional shift. A target localization task, with preceding non-predicative gaze cues presented to each visual field, was undertaken by 44 healthy subjects,…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Attention, Cues, Reaction Time
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Reichle, Erik D.; Laurent, Patryk A. – Psychological Review, 2006
The eye movements of skilled readers are typically very regular (K. Rayner, 1998). This regularity may arise as a result of the perceptual, cognitive, and motor limitations of the reader (e.g., limited visual acuity) and the inherent constraints of the task (e.g., identifying the words in their correct order). To examine this hypothesis,…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Eye Movements, Reading, Visual Acuity
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Olivers, Christian N. L.; Watson, Derrick G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
The attentional blink refers to the finding that the 2nd of 2 targets embedded in a stream of rapidly presented distractors is often missed. Whereas most theories of the attentional blink focus on limited-capacity processes that occur after target selection, the present work investigates the selection process itself. Identifying a target letter…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Inhibition, Eye Movements, Visual Stimuli