ArticleScientific reports2016
Interactive effects between gaze direction and facial expression on attentional resources deployment: the task instruction and context matter.
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- Monkeys integrate facial expressions and direct gaze to modulate gaze-following behavior.Current research in neurobiology · 2026Article
- Spatial and Sequential Organization of Gaze During Facial Expression Recognition Tasks.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Attentional capture by real and illusory faces: a failure to replicate.Psychological research · 2025Article
- Emotional Valence in the Eye Region Modulates the Attentional Blink in a Task-Dependent Manner: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- How facial masks alter the interaction of gaze direction, head orientation, and emotion recognition.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Does a look of fear prompt to act? The effects of gaze and face emotional expression on manipulable objects.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Wearing the face mask affects our social attention over space.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Glued to Which Face? Attentional Priority Effect of Female Babyface and Male Mature Face.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
In three experiments, we tested whether the amount of attentional resources needed to process a face displaying neutral/angry/fearful facial expressions with direct or averted gaze depends on task instructions, and face presentation. To this end, we used a Rapid Serial Visual Presentation paradigm in which participants in Experiment 1 were first explicitly asked to discriminate whether the expression of a target face (T1) with direct or averted gaze was angry or neutral, and then to judge the orientation of a landscape (T2). Experiment 2 was identical to Experiment 1 except that participants had to discriminate the gender of the face of T1 and fearful faces were also presented randomly inter-mixed within each block of trials. Experiment 3 differed from Experiment 2 only because angry and fearful faces were never presented within the same block. The findings indicated that the presence of the attentional blink (AB) for face stimuli depends on specific combinations of gaze direction and emotional facial expressions and crucially revealed that the contextual factors (e.g., explicit instruction to process the facial expression and the presence of other emotional faces) can modify and even reverse the AB, suggesting a flexible and more contextualized deployment of attentional resources in face processing.
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