Abstract
Another's gaze may capture our spatial attention to the direction of the gaze automatically and strongly. The cuing effects on spatial attention were compared between two types of cuing gaze of line drawing human face and arrow. Stimulus onset asynchronies (SOA) were set to 100ms and 300ms. In Experiment 1 three task conditions, target detection, localization, and identification, were employed to measure cue validity effects. Response times and error rates showed statistically significant cue validity effects of the gaze cue and indicated that the localization task is the most appropriate to estimate the cuing effects. In Experiment 2 the cuing effects of arrow were measured using localization task and again significant cue validity effects were observed. Apparently, arrow head directions produced more rapid response times than gaze directions did when the target appeared in the same direction of the cue.
