Gaze-Cueing With Crossed Eyes: Asymmetry Between Nasal and Temporal Shifts

The results highlight the possibility that the gaze-cueing effect might be weakened when a direct gaze exists between the cueing eye and the target and the effect magnitude might depend on which type of face stimulus are used as a cue. A person’s direction of gaze (and visual attention) can be inferred from the direction of the parallel shift of the eyes. However, the direction of gaze is ambiguous when there is a misalignment between the eyes. The use of schematic drawings of faces in a previous study demonstrated that gaze-cueing was equally effective, even when one eye looked straight and the other eye was averted. In the current study, we used more realistic computer-generated face models to re-examine if the diverging direction of the eyes affected gaze-cueing. The condition where one eye was averted nasally while the other looked straight produced a significantly smaller gaze-cueing effect in comparison with when both eyes were averted in parallel or one eye was averted temporally. The difference in the gaze-cueing effect disappeared when the position of one eye was occluded with a rectangular surface or an eye-patch. These results highlight the possibility that the gaze-cueing effect might be weakened when a direct gaze exists between the cueing eye (i.e., nasally oriented eye) and the target and the effect magnitude might depend on which type of face stimulus are used as a cue.

Gaze-Cueing With Crossed Eyes: Asymmetry Between Nasal and Temporal Shifts - Saki Takao, Aiko Murata, Katsumi Watanabe, 2018

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