Lawson, RP;
Calder, AJ;
(2016)
The "where" of social attention: head and body direction aftereffects arise from representations specific to cue type and not direction alone.
Cognitive Neuroscience
, 7
(1-4)
pp. 103-113.
10.1080/17588928.2015.1049993.
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Abstract
Human beings have remarkable social attention skills. From the initial processing of cues, such as eye gaze, head direction, and body orientation, we perceive where other people are attending, allowing us to draw inferences about the intentions, desires, and dispositions of others. But before we can infer why someone is attending to something in the world we must first accurately represent where they are attending. Here we investigate the "where" of social attention perception, and employ adaptation paradigms to ascertain how head and body orientation are visually represented in the human brain. Across two experiments we show that the representation of two cues to social attention (head and body orientation) exists at the category-specific level. This suggests that aftereffects do not arise from "social attention cells" discovered in macaques or from abstract representations of "leftness" or "rightness."
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The "where" of social attention: head and body direction aftereffects arise from representations specific to cue type and not direction alone |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17588928.2015.1049993 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2015.1049993 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Permission is granted subject to the terms of the License under which the work was published. Please check the License conditions for the work which you wish to reuse. Full and appropriate attribution must be given. This permission does not cover any third party copyrighted material which may appear in the work requested. |
| Keywords: | Adaptation, Head and body direction, Social attention cues |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1476803 |
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