@misc{10481/72606,
year = {2022},
month = {1},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/72606},
abstract = {From early ages, gaze acts as a cue to infer the interests, behaviours,
thoughts and emotions of social partners. Despite
sharing attentional properties with other non-social
directional
stimuli, such as arrows, gaze produces unique effects.
A spatial interference task revealed this dissociation. The
direction of arrows was identified faster on congruent than
on incongruent direction-location
trials. Conversely, gaze
produced a reversed congruency effect (RCE), with faster
identifications on incongruent than congruent trials. To
determine the emergence of these gaze-specific
attentional
mechanisms, 214 Spanish children (4–17
years) divided into
6 age groups, performed the aforementioned task across
three experiments. Results showed stimulus-specific
developmental
trajectories. Whereas the standard effect of arrows
was unaffected by age, gaze shifted from an arrow-like
effect
at age 4 to a gaze-specific
RCE at age 12. The orienting
mechanisms shared by gaze and arrows are already present
in 4-year
olds and, throughout childhood, gaze becomes
a special social cue with additional attentional properties.
Besides orienting attention to a direction, as arrows would
do, gaze might orient attention towards a specific object that
would be attentionally selected. Such additional components
may not fully develop until adolescence. Understanding gaze-specific
attentional mechanisms may be crucial for
children with atypical socio-cognitive
development.},
organization = {Spanish Government	fpu16/07124},
publisher = {John Wiley & Sons},
keywords = {Attentional orienting},
keywords = {Development},
keywords = {Gaze following},
keywords = {Social attention},
keywords = {Socio-cognitive development},
keywords = {Spatial congruency effect},
title = {What gaze adds to arrows: Changes in attentional response to gaze versus arrows in childhood and adolescence},
doi = {10.1111/bjop.12552},
author = {Aranda Martín, María Belén and Ballesteros Duperon, María Ángeles and Lupiáñez Castillo, Juan},
}