(How) observed eye-contact modulates gaze following. An fMRI study

摘要: Humans are highly sensitive to directional gaze cues and rapidly shift attention in accordance with others’ (i.e., following). Besides providing information about the physical environment, for instance, location of an object, direction can be used extract social such as whether or not two people interacting each other. In present fMRI study we investigated how these different types conveyed by interact one another. Participants saw faces that were either looking at other away from before jointly shifting toward target locations. Targets appeared gazed non-gazed location. Behaviorally, following (faster responses congruent versus incongruent trials) was more prominent after observing eye contact than no contact. line behavioral findings, neuroimaging results revealed enhanced activation fronto-pa...