scholarly journals Social versus nonsocial cues and responses: a reply to Alizon

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (10) ◽  
pp. 2297-2298
Author(s):  
F. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Nonsocial Cues

Socially Relevant Attentional Cues Engage a Larger Cortical Network than Nonsocial Cues: fMRI Evidence

NeuroImage ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. S44
Author(s):  
D.J. Greene ◽  
E. Mooshagian ◽  
J.T. Kaplan ◽  
E. Zaidel ◽  
M. Iacoboni
Keyword(s):  
Cortical Network ◽  
Socially Relevant ◽  
Attentional Cues ◽  
Nonsocial Cues

Integrating advice and experience: Learning and decision making with social and nonsocial cues.

2011 ◽  
Vol 100 (6) ◽  
pp. 967-982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth C. Collins ◽  
Elise J. Percy ◽  
Eliot R. Smith ◽  
John K. Kruschke
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Nonsocial Cues

scholarly journals The neural correlates of social attention: automatic orienting to social and nonsocial cues

2009 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deanna J. Greene ◽  
Eric Mooshagian ◽  
Jonas T. Kaplan ◽  
Eran Zaidel ◽  
Marco Iacoboni
Keyword(s):  
Neural Correlates ◽  
Social Attention ◽  
Nonsocial Cues

scholarly journals Gaze signals both cue direction and agent mental states

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Mayrand ◽  
Sarah McCrackin ◽  
Francesca Capozzi ◽  
Jelena Ristic
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Mental Content ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Gaze Following ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Target Performance ◽  
Nonsocial Cues

Although it is well established that humans spontaneously follow where others are looking, it remains debated if this gaze following behaviour occurs due to the gaze cue’sdirectional information (i.e., where an agent is attending) or the agent’s inferred mental state (i.e., what they are attending to). We tested this notion by assessing the combined anddissociated effects of the gaze cue direction and the agent’s mental content. Gazed-at target performance was compromised when cue direction and inferred mental content were dissociated relative to when they were combined. This effect was especially prominent for social relative to nonsocial cues. Thus, gaze signals include information about both the cue direction and the gazer’s mental content, communicating information about where gazed at items are located and what those items are.

Brain Responses to Biological Relevance

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 879-891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine M. Tipper ◽  
Todd C. Handy ◽  
Barry Giesbrecht ◽  
Alan Kingstone
Keyword(s):  
Eye Gaze ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Neural Mechanisms ◽  
Attentional Orienting ◽  
Social Orienting ◽  
Biologically Relevant ◽  
Brain Responses ◽  
Imaging Results ◽  
Nonsocial Cues

This study examines whether orienting attention to biologically based social cues engages neural mechanisms distinct from those engaged by orienting to nonbiologically based nonsocial cues. Participants viewed a perceptually ambiguous stimulus presented centrally while performing a target detection task. By having participants alternate between viewing this stimulus as an eye in profile or an arrowhead, we were able to directly compare the neural mechanisms of attentional orienting to social and nonsocial cues while holding the physical stimulus constant. The functional magnetic resonance imaging results indicated that attentional orienting to both eye gaze and arrow cues engaged extensive dorsal and ventral fronto-parietal networks. Eye gaze cues, however, more vigorously engaged two regions in the ventral frontal cortex associated with attentional reorienting to salient or meaningful stimuli, as well as lateral occipital regions. An event-related potential study demonstrated that this enhanced occipital response was attributable to a higher-amplitude sensory gain effect for targets appearing at locations cued by eye gaze than for those cued by an arrowhead. These results endorse the hypothesis that differences in attention to social and nonsocial cues are quantitative rather than qualitative, running counter to current models that assume enhanced processing for social stimuli reflects the involvement of a unique network of brain regions. An intriguing implication of the present study is the possibility that our ability to orient volitionally and reflexively to socially irrelevant stimuli, including arrowheads, may have arisen as a useful by-product of a system that developed first, and foremost, to promote social orienting to stimuli that are biologically relevant.

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