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The Dynamics of Reference and Shared Visual Attention

Dale, R; Kirkham, NZ; Richardson, DC; (2011) The Dynamics of Reference and Shared Visual Attention. Frontiers in Cognition , 2 , Article 355. 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00355. Green open access

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Abstract

In the tangram task, two participants are presented with the same set of abstract shapes portrayed in different orders. One participant must instruct the other to arrange their shapes so that the orders match. To do this, they must find a way to refer to the abstract shapes. In the current experiment, the eye movements of pairs of participants were tracked while they were engaged in a computerized version of the task. Results revealed the canonical tangram effect: participants became faster at completing the task from round 1 to round 3. Also, their eye-movements synchronized over time. Cross-recurrence analysis was used to quantify this coordination, and showed that as participants’ words coalesced, their actions approximated a single coordinated system.

Type: Article
Title: The Dynamics of Reference and Shared Visual Attention
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00355
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00355
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright: © 2011 Dale, Kirkham and Richardson. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited.
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
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Experimental Psychology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1357322
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