Following gaze: gaze-following behavior as a window into social cognition

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Stephen V Shepherd¹ 

[1] Princeton University;

关键词: Attention;    social attention;    joint attention;    Orienting;    shared attention;    theory-of-mind;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fnint.2010.00005

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In general, individuals look where they attend and next intend to act.Many animals, including our own species, use observed gaze as a deictic (pointing) cue to guide behavior. Among humans, these responses are reflexive and pervasive: they arise within a fraction of a second, act independently of task relevance, and appear to undergird our initial development of language and theory of mind.Human and nonhuman animals appear to share basic gaze-following behaviors, suggesting the foundations of human social cognition may also be present in nonhuman brains.

【 授权许可】

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