Article
My eyes want to look where your eyes are looking: exploring the tendency to imitate another individual's gaze.
Department of Neurological and Vision Sciences, Section of Physiology, University of Verona, Strada Le Grazie 8, 37134 Verona Cognitive Science Laboratory, Rovereto Branch, University of Trento, Italy.
Neuroreport (impact factor:
1.66).
01/2003;
13(17):2259-64.
DOI:10.1097/01.wnr.0000044227.79663.2e
pp.2259-64
Source: PubMed
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Keywords
directions
distracters
Distracting
Experiment 1
Experiment 2
Experiment 3
Eye movement recordings
gaze direction
humans
instructed saccade
instructed saccadic eye movement task
joint attention
non biological directional cues
observers
share attentional states
strong tendency
task performance
