Investigating hemispheric lateralization of reflexive attention to gaze and arrow cues Marotta, Andrea Lupiáñez Castillo, Juan Casagrande, Maria Recent studies have demonstrated that central cues, such as eyes and arrows, reflexively trigger attentional shifts. However, it is not clear whether the attentional mechanisms induced by these two cues are similar or rather differ in some important way. We investigated hemispheric lateralization of the orienting effects induced by the two cue types in a group of 48 healthy participants comparing arrows and eye gaze as central non-predictive cues in a discrimination task, in which a target stimulus was briefly presented in one of two peripheral positions (left or right of fixation). As predicted by neuropsychological data, reflexive orienting to gaze cues was only observed when the target was presented in the left visual field, whereas reflexive orienting to arrow cues occurred for targets presented in both left and right visual fields. 2024-01-23T07:59:40Z 2024-01-23T07:59:40Z 2012 journal article Marotta, A., Lupiáñez, J., & Casagrande, M. (2012). Investigating hemispheric lateralization of reflexive attention to gaze and arrow cues. Brain and cognition, 80(3), 361-366. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/87112 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.08.001 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional