ArticleBiological psychology2017
Event-related potentials index neural response to eye contact.
Article in Biological psychology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Understanding the role of eye movement pattern and consistency during face recognition through EEG decoding.NPJ science of learning · 2025Article
- Separable processes for live "in-person" and live "zoom-like" faces.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2023Article
- Predictability modulates neural response to eye contact in ASD.Molecular autism · 2022Article
- Co-localization of theta-band activity and hemodynamic responses during face perception: simultaneous electroencephalography and functional near-infrared spectroscopy recordings.Neurophotonics · 2019Article
- The Potential of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Consensus Statement.Biological psychiatry · 2019Article
- Early and late cortical responses to directly gazing faces are task dependent.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
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Abstract
Sensitivity to eye-contact is a foundation upon which social cognition is built. However, there are no known neural markers characterizing response to reciprocal gaze. Using co-registered EEG and eye-tracking, we measured brain activity while participants viewed faces that responded to their looking patterns. Contingent upon participant gaze, onscreen faces opened their eyes or mouths; in this way we measured brain response to reciprocal eye-contact. We identified two ERP components that were largest in response to reciprocal eye-contact: the N170 and the P300. The magnitude of the components' differences between reciprocal eye-contact and mouth movement predicted self-reported social function. Individuals with greater brain response to reciprocal eye-contact reported more normative scores on measures of autistic traits. These results present the first neural markers of eye-contact, revealing that reciprocal eye-contact is identified in less than 500ms. Furthermore, individual differences in brain response to eye-contact predict meaningful variability in self-reports of social performance.
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