Citation

Lassalle A, Itier RJ. Vis. Cogn. 2015; 23(6): 720-735.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/13506285.2015.1083067

PMID

28344502

PMCID

PMC5362272

Abstract

Recent gaze cueing studies using dynamic cue sequences have reported increased attention orienting by gaze with faces expressing fear, surprise or anger. Here, we investigated whether the type of dynamic cue sequence used impacted the magnitude of this effect. When the emotion was expressed before or concurrently with gaze shift, no modulation of gaze-oriented attention by emotion was seen. In contrast, when the face cue averted gaze before expressing an emotion (as if reacting to the object after first localizing it), the gaze orienting effect was clearly increased for fearful, surprised and angry faces compared to neutral faces. Thus, the type of dynamic sequence used, and in particular the order in which the gaze shift and the facial expression are presented, modulate gaze-oriented attention, with maximal modulation seen when the expression of emotion follows gaze shift.

Language: en

Keywords

Facial expression; attention orienting; dynamic sequence; gaze cueing