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| Research article summary (published 30 Jun 2002): |
Social attention orienting integrates visual information from head and body orientation.
Full Abstract
Subjects were asked to detect visual, laterally presented reaction signals preceded by head-body cue stimuli in a spatial cueing task. A head rotated towards the reaction signal combined with a front view of a body resulted in shorter reaction times in comparison to the front view of a head and body. In contrast, a cue showing the head and body rotated towards the reaction signal did not result in such a facilitation in reaction times. The results suggest that the brain mechanisms involved in social attention orienting integrate ventrally processed visual information from the head and body orientation. A cue signaling that the other person, in his or her frame of reference, has an averted attention direction shifts the observer's own attention in the same direction.
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Author information
Author/s: Hietanen, Jari K (JK);
Affiliation: Human Information Processing Laboratory, Department of Psychology, FIN-33014 University of Tampere, Finland. jari.hietanen@uta.fi
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Psychological research (Psychol Res), published in Germany. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Aug; vol 66 (issue 3) : pp 174-9
Dates: Created 2002/08/22; Completed 2002/12/04; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12192446, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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