Perceived gaze direction in faces and spatial attention: a study in patients with parietal damage and unilateral neglect

Neuropsychologia
Patrik Vuilleumier

Abstract

Perceived gaze in faces is an important social signal that may influence orienting of attention in normal observers. Would such effects of gaze still occur in patients with right parietal damage and left neglect who usually fail to attend to contralesional space? Two experiments tested for effects of perceived gaze on visual extinction. Face or shape stimuli were presented in the right, left, or both hemifields, with faces looking either straight ahead or toward the opposite field. On bilateral trials, patients extinguished a left shape much less often when a concurrent right face looked leftward rather than straight ahead. This occurred, even though gaze was not relevant to the task and processing of facial signals implied attention to a competing ipsilesional stimulus. By contrast, rightward gaze in faces presented on the left side had no effect on extinction, suggesting that gaze cues are not extracted without attention. Two other experiments examined effects of perceived gaze on the detection of peripheral targets. Targets appeared at one of four possible locations to the right or left of a central face looking either toward the target location, another location on the same side, the opposite side, or straight ahead. Face a...Continue Reading

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