The influence of eye-gaze and arrow pointing distractor cues on voluntary eye movements

Kuhn, Gustav and Benson, Valerie orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-0351-4563 (2007) The influence of eye-gaze and arrow pointing distractor cues on voluntary eye movements. Perception & Psychophysics, 69 (6). pp. 966-971. ISSN 0031-5117

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03193934

Abstract

We investigated Ricciardelli et al.’s (2002) claim, that the tendency for gaze direction to elicit automatic attentional following is unique to biologically significant information. Participants made voluntary saccades to targets on the left or the right of a display, which were either congruent or incongruent with a centrally presented distractor (eye-gaze or arrow). Contrary to Ricciardelli et al., for both distractor types, saccade latencies were slower, and participants made more directional errors, on incongruent than on congruent trials. Moreover, a cost-benefit analysis showed no difference between the two distractor types. However, latencies for erroneous saccades were faster than correctly directed saccades for the eye-gaze distractors, but not for the arrow distractors.


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