Social attention and real-world scenes: The roles of action, competition and social content
Social attention and real-world scenes: The roles of action, competition and social content
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DOI：
10.1080/17470210701410375
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发表时间：
2008-07-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Kingstone, Alan
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作者：
Birmingham, Elina;Bischof, Walter F.;Kingstone, Alan
本研究考察了社会内容和可用于注意的项目的存在如何影响社会注意。当观察者自由地观看现实世界的社交场景时，我们监测了他们的眼球运动，这些场景中有1或3个人位于各种物体之间。根据Yarbus（1965/1967）的工作，我们假设观察者会表现出一种优先偏好，即注视场景中的人，尽管其他物品也会受到注意。此外，我们假设眼睛的注视会随着社会内容（即人数）的增加而增加。这两种假设都得到了数据的支持，我们还发现，当社交内容高时，场景中的活动水平会影响对眼睛的注意力。目前的研究结果支持了他人选择眼睛是为了提取社会信息的观点。我们的研究还提出了一种简单而隐蔽的方法，用于研究一系列人群对现实世界刺激的社会关注，比如自闭症谱系障碍患者。
The present study examined how social attention is influenced by social content and the presence of items that are available for attention. We monitored observers' eye movements while they freely viewed real-world social scenes containing either 1 or 3 people situated among a variety of objects. Building from the work of Yarbus (1965/1967) we hypothesized that observers would demonstrate a preferential bias to fixate the eyes of the people in the scene, although other items would also receive attention. In addition, we hypothesized that fixations to the eyes would increase as the social content (i.e., number of people) increased. Both hypotheses were supported by the data, and we also found that the level of activity in the scene influenced attention to eyes when social content was high. The present results provide support for the notion that the eyes are selected by others in order to extract social information. Our study also suggests a simple and surreptitious methodology for studying social attention to real-world stimuli in a range of populations, such as those with autism spectrum disorders.