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Abstract
Studies have shown that perceiving another person's gaze shift facilitates responses in the direction of the perceived gaze shift. While it is often assumed that participants in these experiments remain fixated on the cue in the cueing interval, eye gaze is not always recorded to confirm this. The data presented here suggest that the effect of gaze cues on responses to peripheral targets depends on whether participants make eye movements prior to the onset of the target. Participants who were required to fixate showed cueing effects at short cue-target intervals, but no cueing at later intervals. Participants who could look around, often chose to do so, and showed the same positive cueing effects at the shorter interval, but negative cueing effects (suggestive of inhibition of return) at the longer interval.
The author wishes to thank Robin Walker for helpful discussions regarding the setup of the experiment.
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.
This study was supported by funding from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) in the form of a Postdoctoral Researcher grant to the author. The experiments were conducted while Frouke Hermens was at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Frouke Hermens is now in the School of Psychology, University of Lincoln, UK.
The author wishes to thank Robin Walker for helpful discussions regarding the setup of the experiment.
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.
This study was supported by funding from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) in the form of a Postdoctoral Researcher grant to the author. The experiments were conducted while Frouke Hermens was at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Frouke Hermens is now in the School of Psychology, University of Lincoln, UK.