Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27756579›Full record

ArticleBiological psychology2016

Direct gaze facilitates rapid orienting to faces: Evidence from express saccades and saccadic potentials.

Inês Mares, Marie L Smith, Mark H Johnson, Atsushi Senju

Open access · hybridAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Biological psychology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. The effects of the presence of a face and direct eye gaze on voice identity learning.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2023
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Review
  6. Article
  7. Direct eye gaze enhances the ventriloquism effect.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022
    Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Review
  13. Article
  14. How wide is the cone of direct gaze?Royal Society open science · 2018
    Article
  15. Article
  16. Autism Pathogenesis: The Superior Colliculus.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2018
    Article
  17. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Inês MaresCentre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, Henry Wellcome Building, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom. Electronic address: imares01@mail.bbk.ac.uk.
Marie L SmithCentre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, Henry Wellcome Building, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom; Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom.
Mark H JohnsonCentre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, Henry Wellcome Building, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom.
Atsushi SenjuCentre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, Henry Wellcome Building, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom.
Birkbeck, University of London · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G1100252Medical Research Council MR/K021389/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Direct gaze is a crucial signal in human social communication, which is known to attract visual attention and modulate a wide range of behaviours. The present study investigated whether direct gaze facilitates rapid orienting to faces, which is important for adaptive on-line communication, and its neural correlates. Fifteen participants performed a rapid orienting task, in which they were instructed to saccade to peripherally presented buildings or faces containing direct or averted gaze as quickly as possible. Electroencephalographic recordings were made during the task. Shorter express saccade latencies were found for faces with direct gaze, compared to averted gaze or buildings, while no significant difference was found between faces with averted gaze and buildings. Furthermore, saccade-locked event-related potential (ERP) amplitudes in parieto-occipital areas discriminated faces with direct gaze from buildings and faces with averted gaze corroborating behavioural results. These results show that detection of direct gaze facilitates rapid orienting to faces.

Indexed as

AdultAttentionElectroencephalographyEvoked PotentialsFacial RecognitionFemaleFixation, OcularHealthy VolunteersHumansMaleMiddle AgedOccipital LobeOrientationParietal LobePhotic StimulationSaccadesDirect gazeExpress saccadesFace detectionSaccade-locked event-related potentials

Identifiers

PMID27756579
PMCPMC5157993
OpenAlexW2539412665

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.