@misc{10481/97194,
year = {2023},
month = {5},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/97194},
abstract = {Introduction: Spatial interference tasks have been recently used to investigate
the supposed uniqueness of gaze processing and attention. For instance, it has
been observed that gaze stimuli elicited faster responses when their direction
was incongruent with their position (“reversed spatial congruency effect”, RCE),
whereas arrows produced faster reaction times (RT) when it was congruent
(“standard spatial congruency effect”, SCE). In the present study, we tested whether
the RCE is unique to eye-gaze stimuli or can be observed in response to other
important social stimuli such as pointing fingers.
Method: To this aim, congruency effects elicited by eye gaze, arrows, and pointing
fingers were compared in a spatial interference task.
Results: The RCE was only observed in response to eye-gaze stimuli while
pointing fingers and arrows elicited the SCE.
Discussion: This suggests that the RCE reversed congruency effect is specific to
gaze stimuli and cannot be generalized to finger-pointing stimuli.},
organization = {Department of University, Research, and Innovation of the Regional Government of Andalusia},
organization = {European Regional Development Fund (FEDER), through research project B-SEJ-572-UGR20},
publisher = {Frontiers Media},
keywords = {eye-gaze},
keywords = {finger pointing},
keywords = {congruency effect},
title = {Is the reversed congruency effect unique to the eye-gaze? Investigating the effects of finger pointing, eye-gaze and arrows stimuli on spatial interference},
doi = {10.3389/fcogn.2023.1135435},
author = {Bonventre, Sofía and Marotta, Andrea},
}