ArticleRoyal Society open science2018
How wide is the cone of direct gaze?
Article in Royal Society open science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- New task-new results? How the gaze cone is influenced by the method of measurement.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Autistic traits modulate the influence of face masks on gaze perception.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Explicit and implicit mentalization of patients with first-episode schizophrenia: a study of self-referential gaze perception with eye movement analysis using hidden Markov models.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2022Article
- Perception of direct gaze in a video-conference setting: the effects of position and size.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2022Article
- Face masks have a limited effect on the feeling of being looked at.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Looking Into Mona Lisa's Smiling Eyes: Allusion to an Illusion.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- The Cone of Direct Gaze: A Stable Trait.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
The cone of direct gaze refers to the range of gaze deviations an observer accepts as looking directly at them. Previous experiments have calculated the width of the cone of direct gaze using the gaze deviations actually presented to the observer, however, there is considerable evidence that observers actually perceive gaze to be systematically more deviated than actually presented. Here, we examine the width of the cone of direct gaze in units of perceived gaze deviation. In doing so, we are able to disambiguate differences in width both within and between observers that are due to differences in their perception of gaze and due to differences in what observers consider to be looking at them. We suggest that this line of inquiry can offer further insight into the perception of gaze direction, and how this perception may differ in clinical populations.
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