Forum: Reading through faces: Researches on speech, impression, and eye gaze perception
What can aftereffects reveal about the functional architecture of human gaze perception?
2018 Volume 37 Issue 1 Pages 94-98
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2018 Volume 37 Issue 1 Pages 94-98
The direction of another’s gaze provides a strong cue to their intentions and future actions. The perception of gaze is a remarkably plastic process: adaptation to a particular direction of gaze over a matter of seconds or minutes can cause marked aftereffects in the perceived direction of others’ gaze. Computational modelling of data from behavioural studies of gaze adaptation allows us to make inferences about the functional principles that govern the neural encoding of gaze direction. This in turn provides a foundation for testing computational theories of neuropsychiatric conditions in which gaze processing is compromised, such as autism.
