ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2021
Eye contact during joint attention with a humanoid robot modulates oscillatory brain activity.
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- Communicative signals during joint attention promote neural processes of infants and caregivers.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2024Article
- The Role of Coherent Robot Behavior and Embodiment in Emotion Perception and Recognition During Human-Robot Interaction: Experimental Study.JMIR human factors · 2024Article
- Cultural differences in joint attention and engagement in mutual gaze with a robot face.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Enhancing the Sense of Attention from an Assistance Mobile Robot by Improving Eye-Gaze Contact from Its Iconic Face Displayed on a Flat Screen.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- EEG alpha and theta signatures of socially and non-socially cued working memory in virtual reality.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Article
- Robot's Social Gaze Affects Conflict Resolution but not Conflict Adaptations.Journal of cognition · 2022Article
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Abstract
Eye contact established by a human partner has been shown to affect various cognitive processes of the receiver. However, little is known about humans' responses to eye contact established by a humanoid robot. Here, we aimed at examining humans' oscillatory brain response to eye contact with a humanoid robot. Eye contact (or lack thereof) was embedded in a gaze-cueing task and preceded the phase of gaze-related attentional orienting. In addition to examining the effect of eye contact on the recipient, we also tested its impact on gaze-cueing effects (GCEs). Results showed that participants rated eye contact as more engaging and responded with higher desynchronization of alpha-band activity in left fronto-central and central electrode clusters when the robot established eye contact with them, compared to no eye contact condition. However, eye contact did not modulate GCEs. The results are interpreted in terms of the functional roles involved in alpha central rhythms (potentially interpretable also as mu rhythm), including joint attention and engagement in social interaction.
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