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ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2024

A motion aftereffect from viewing other people's gaze.

Christian Renet, William Randall, Arvid Guterstam

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Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  2. Cortical networks involved in judging the attention of others.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025
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Christian RenetDepartment of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
William RandallDepartment of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States.
Arvid GuterstamDepartment of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Abstract

Recent work suggests that our brains may generate subtle, false motion signals streaming from other people to the objects of their attention, aiding social cognition. For instance, brief exposure to static images depicting other people gazing at objects made subjects slower at detecting subsequent motion in the direction of gaze, suggesting that looking at someone else's gaze caused a directional motion adaptation. Here we confirm, using a more stringent method, that viewing static images of another person gazing in a particular direction, at an object, produced motion aftereffects in the opposite direction. The aftereffect was manifested as a change in perceptual decision threshold for detecting left vs. right motion. The effect disappeared when the person was looking away from the object. These findings suggest that the attentive gaze of others is encoded as an implied agent-to-object motion that is sufficiently robust to cause genuine motion aftereffects, though subtle enough to remain subthreshold.

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attentiongaze perceptionmotion perceptionsocial cognitionsocial perception

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PMID39183816
PMCPMC11341350

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