The gaze of others fascinates us from birth onwards. Traditionally, experimental approaches to study the effects of gaze have focused on how human observers respond to gaze cues and how attention, perception and action control is influenced by them. In recent years, the investigation of gaze behavior has moved toward the inclusion of more ecologically valid conditions, in which gaze signals are...

Clinical observations suggest abnormal gaze perception to be an important indicator of social anxiety disorder (SAD). Experimental research has yet paid relatively little attention to the study of gaze perception in SAD. In this article we first discuss gaze perception in healthy human beings before reviewing self-referential and threat-related biases of gaze perception in clinical and non-clin...

Motivated by the psycholinguistic finding that human eye gaze is tightly linked to speech production, previous work has applied naturally occurring eye gaze for automatic vocabulary acquisition. However, unlike in the typical settings for psycholinguistic studies, eye gaze can serve different functions in human-machine conversation. Some gaze streams do not link to the content of the spoken utt...

Three patients with paralysed horizontal gaze are presented. Involuntary use of convergence to assist horizontal gaze was noted as a late feature. All patients showed (1) unilateral or bilateral horizontal gaze palsy (two patients had one and a half syndrome, the other had bilateral nuclear sixth nerve palsies), (2) adduction of both eyes on attempted gaze into the paralysed field, (3) miosis w...

Extraocular movements were investigated in a patient with bilateral vascular lesions of the medial longitudinal fasciculus. The patient showed voluntary and reflex horizontal gaze consistent with his lesion, but had absent reflex vertical gaze. Voluntary vertical gaze was present. Necropsy was performed, and the findings suggest that the medial longitudinal fasciculi in the pons conveys impulse...

Prior physiological studies indicate that gaze direction modulates the gain of neural responses to visual stimuli. Here, we test gaze modulation in the perceptual domain using color and depth aftereffects. After confirming retinotopy of the effects, we employed a balanced alternating adaptation paradigm (adaptation alternates between opponent stimuli) to demonstrate that opposite color and dept...

The gaze behavior of homonymous hemianopes differs from that of visually intact observers when performing simple laboratory tasks. To test whether such compensatory behavior is also evident during naturalistic tasks, we analyzed the gaze patterns of three long-standing hemianopes and four visually intact controls while they assembled wooden models. No significant differences in task performance...

This paper reports how shy people perceive different amount of gaze from a virtual agent and how their perception of the gaze affects comfortableness of the interaction. Our preliminary results indicate shy people are sensitive to even a very low amounts of gaze from the agent. However, contrary to our expectations, as the amounts of gaze from the agent increases, shy people had more favorable ...

• In the current research, two experiments detail how eye-gaze orientation (direct vs. averted) modulates how perceivers process faces. • Experiment 1 finds that averted gaze disrupts configural face encoding (compared to direct eye-gaze) using a version of the composite face procedure. • Experiment 2 manipulates whether perceivers can engage in configural encoding using face-inversion, and fin...

The role of vision in implicit and explicit processes involved in adaptation to novel visuomotor transformations is not well-understood. We manipulated subjects' gaze locations through instructions during a visuomotor rotation task that established a conflict between implicit and explicit processes. Subjects were informed of a rotated visual feedback (45° counterclockwise from the desired targe...