Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Gizelle Anzures, Melissa Mildort, Cassandra Bell, Elizabeth Soethe
Summary: This study used eye tracking technology to investigate the impact of implicit racial bias on face recognition. The results showed that individuals spent more time looking at the internal features of own-race faces compared to other-race faces. Regardless of implicit bias, adults generally demonstrated an advantage in recognizing own-race faces.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Jakob Fink-Lamotte, Frederike Svensson, Julian Schmitz, Cornelia Exner
Summary: The eye-tracking study found that individuals with higher levels of contamination fear are more likely to focus their attention on disgusting stimuli, with slower reaction times and longer gaze durations, but less accurate memory of image details compared to fear stimuli. The results also suggest that disgust is processed more superficially, possibly related to the uncertainty and ambiguity associated with disgust.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Yael Skversky-Blocq, Shahar Shmuel, Oded Cohen, Tomer Shechner
Summary: This study examined the visual gaze patterns during observational threat learning among adolescents and adults. The results showed developmental differences in gaze patterns and understanding of the association between conditioned and unconditioned stimuli.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Eeva-Leena Kataja, Ana Joao Rodrigues, Noora M. Scheinin, Saara Nolvi, Riikka Korja, Tuomo Haikio, Eeva Ekholm, Nuno Sousa, Linnea Karlsson, Hasse Karlsson
Summary: Infants exposed to prenatal synthetic glucocorticoids may show atypical fear bias at 8 months, which could be related to changes in emotional processing. This atypical emotion processing may also be a predictor of emotional problems later in development. Future longitudinal studies are needed to evaluate the long-term consequences of sGC exposure for the developing brain.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Anna Wallisch, Lauren M. Little, Amanda S. Bruce, Brenda Salley
Summary: Sensory sensitivity may serve as a protective mechanism against susceptibility to food and beverage advertising in young children.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Education & Educational Research
Yeliz Tunga, Kursat Cagiltay
Summary: Eye movement modeling examples (EMME) are video modeling examples that include eye-movement recordings of the model, providing attentional guidance. This study reviews empirical studies employing EMME to synthesize existing literature and identify gaps for further research. Thirty-one peer-reviewed studies published between 2009 and 2022 were included. Results indicate an increase in EMME studies, with a focus on teaching cognitive skills rather than perceptual skills. Design features of EMME are still inconclusive, calling for more research on its effects and different design characteristics.
EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Isabel Orenes
Summary: This study contributes to the debate on the processing of negation, showing that integration of negation into sentence meaning can be influenced by the demands of representation and inference. Eye-tracking data revealed two different fixation patterns for negative causal assertions, indicating differences in the timing of integration of negation and the representation of alternative concepts.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Clinical Neurology
Vivien Gunther, Adam Kropidlowski, Frank Martin Schmidt, Katja Koelkebeck, Anette Kersting, Thomas Suslow
Summary: Recent eye-tracking studies have revealed that individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD) show reduced eye contact with negative and positive emotional faces compared to healthy controls. They also demonstrate slightly heightened attention toward angry faces during early processing stages. Eye contact avoidance and threat biases may be potential targets for attention modification training in SAD patients.
PROGRESS IN NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Elise Clin, Mikhail Kissine
Summary: Many autistics report distress from eye contact, but eye-tracking studies suggest it may be associated with hypo-arousal rather than hyper-arousal in autism. This study used a live face-to-face paradigm with eye-tracking and electrodermal activity sensors to compare eye behaviors and stress responses between autistics and neurotypicals. Autistics showed no differences in their eye behaviors or skin conductance responses, while neurotypicals appeared more distressed when the experimenter avoided eye contact. This suggests that the distress of neurotypicals when their attempts at eye contact are not reciprocated could contribute to difficulties in social interactions with autistics.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Jasmine K. W. Lee, Steve M. J. Janssen, Alejandro J. Estudillo
Summary: This study investigates the role of holistic and featural processing in the processing and recognition of self, personally familiar, and unfamiliar faces. The results suggest that task demands modulate the perception of the own face and highlight the importance of distinct visual experience in the processing and recognition of the self-face.
CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Antonia Vehlen, Ines Spenthof, Daniel Toensing, Markus Heinrichs, Gregor Domes
Summary: The study evaluated a new eye tracking setup for investigating attentional processing of social stimuli in three independent studies, demonstrating feasibility, good data quality, as well as stability and accuracy in tracking eye movements during interactions between two real people.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Zhong Zhao, Zhipeng Zhu, Xiaobin Zhang, Haiming Tang, Jiayi Xing, Xinyao Hu, Jianping Lu, Qiongling Peng, Xingda Qu
Summary: This study utilized OpenFace 2.0 to quantify head movement in children with ASD and TD, showing that children with ASD exhibited more stereotyped and greater head movement. The study suggests the widespread use of head movement tracking techniques in autism research.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Soojung Baek, SoSeo Ha, Jang-Han Lee
Summary: This study verifies the effectiveness of attentional bias modification (ABM) in reducing attentional bias related to depression and emotional reactivity to stress. By training participants to disengage from depression-relevant stimuli and focus on more positive stimuli, the study found a significant decrease in attention to negative affective stimuli and negative emotional reactivity to stress. However, it suggests that a longer duration of ABM application is needed to increase attention to positive affective stimuli.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Muhammad A. Parvaz, Pias Malaker, Anna Zilverstand, Scott J. Moeller, Nelly Alia-Klein, Rita Z. Goldstein
Summary: The study found that cognitive reappraisal can reduce spontaneous attention bias to drug-related cues in cocaine-addicted individuals, especially in those with less recent use. These results reveal the mechanisms underlying the disruption of automatized maladaptive drug-related attention bias in cocaine addiction.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Paolo Masulli, Martyna Galazka, David Eberhard, Jakob Asberg Johnels, Christopher Gillberg, Eva Billstedt, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Tobias S. Andersen
Summary: Gaze patterns during face perception can predict autistic traits and depression symptoms. A data-driven method was used to analyze gaze patterns and their relation to diagnostic test scores, offering an alternative approach to gaze data analysis.