2001 年 20 巻 1 号 p. 33-34
Several studies have found that gaze perception causes reflexive visuospatial orienting. To investigate which aspects of facial properties are crucial to this effect, upright, inverted and eye negated computerized faces, whose eyes cued to either the left or the right direction, were presented as cueing stimuli. The task was speeded localization of the target which appears left or right to the face. Though participants were told to ignore the eye direction, responses to the target located to the cued side were faster than the uncued side in all conditions. Thus neither face orientation nor contrast polarity of eyes was found necessary to the cueing effect of eye gaze.