When looking at another person shifting their gaze, humans use the gazer's head direction, velocity, and peripheral visual information to infer potential gaze goals and execute anticipatory eye movements.
A distinct cortical region serves head gaze following, and is needed to establish joint attention with others and to ultimately develop a theory of others' mind.
Social threats trigger enhanced neural representations within 200 milliseconds in sensory and motor systems of the human brain as a function of anxiety, highlighting its adaptive function in reacting rapidly to dangers in the environment.
Angie M Michaiel, Elliott TT Abe, Cristopher M Niell
During natural visual behavior in mice, orienting towards a target is driven by head movements, during which the eyes stabilize and shift the visual input.
Ototoxic transient loss of inner ear inputs leads to suboptimal visuo-vestibular integration despite visual substitution and demonstrates the fundamental role of type I hair cells in the vestibulo-ocular reflexes.
Experiments showed that uniformly white sclera, one distinguishing feature of human eyes, facilitates gaze perception across species, suggesting that this eye feature evolved for conspecific communication in humans.
A comparison of different computational models reveals that looking behavior, during value-based choices from 9, 16, 25, or 36 snack foods, actively influences the subjective values of the available alternatives.
Children with ASD showed a significant divergence in gaze patterns compared to typically developing children, intensifying over early childhood, with implications for developmental and adaptive functioning.