Visual search for facing and non-facing people: The effect of actor inversion

In recent years, there has been growing interest in how human observers perceive, attend to, and recall, social interactions viewed from third-person perspectives. One of the interesting findings to emerge this new literature is search advantage for facing dyads. When hidden amongst pairs individuals same direction, arranged front-to-front are found faster visual tasks than back-to-back. Interestingly, dyads appears be sensitive orientation people depicted. While target back-to-back targets when distractor pairings shown upright, equally quickly upside-down. present study, we sought better understand why To begin, show that sensitivity seen with constructed faces only, bodies head face occluded. We replicate these effects using two different paradigms. go on individual bodies, profile, produce strong attentional cueing but not presented Together evidence arrows also dyads, support view a by-product ability constituent elements direct observers' visuo-spatial attention.