Eye Contact Facilitates Awareness of Faces during Interocular Suppression

Autor/inn/en	Stein, Timo; Senju, Atsushi; Peelen, Marius V.; Sterzer, Philipp
Titel	Eye Contact Facilitates Awareness of Faces during Interocular Suppression
Quelle	In: Cognition, 119 (2011) 2, S.307-311 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2011.01.008
Schlagwörter	Nonverbal Communication; Human Body; Children; Recognition (Psychology); Cognitive Processes; Control Groups; Visual Stimuli + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Menschlicher Körper; Child; Kind; Kinder; Recognition; Wiedererkennen; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	Eye contact captures attention and receives prioritized visual processing. Here we asked whether eye contact might be processed outside conscious awareness. Faces with direct and averted gaze were rendered invisible using interocular suppression. In two experiments we found that faces with direct gaze overcame such suppression more rapidly than faces with averted gaze. Control experiments ruled out the influence of low-level stimulus differences and differential response criteria. These results indicate an enhanced unconscious representation of direct gaze, enabling the automatic and rapid detection of other individuals making eye contact with the observer. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10