English Journal

Neural mechanisms underlying conscious and unconscious attentional shifts triggered by eye gaze.

Sato W1, Kochiyama T2, Uono S3, Toichi M4.
NeuroImage.Neuroimage.2016 Jan 1;124(Pt A):118-26. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.08.061. Epub 2015 Sep 4.
Behavioral studies have shown that eye gaze triggers attentional shifts both with and without conscious awareness. However, the neural substrates of conscious and unconscious attentional shifts triggered by eye gaze remain unclear. To investigate this issue, we measured brain activity using event-re
PMID 26343316

Nakajima K1, Minami T2, Nakauchi S1.
Neuroscience.Neuroscience.2015 Dec 3;310:472-85. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.09.059. Epub 2015 Sep 28.
Recent studies have suggested that both configural information, such as face shape, and surface information is important for face perception. In particular, facial color is sufficiently suggestive of emotional states, as in the phrases: "flushed with anger" and "pale with fear." However, few studies
PMID 26424379

Failures to Change Stimulus Evaluations by Means of Subliminal Approach and Avoidance Training.

Van Dessel P, De Houwer J, Roets A, Gast A.
Journal of personality and social psychology.J Pers Soc Psychol.2015 Nov 2. [Epub ahead of print]
Previous research suggests that the repeated performance of approach and avoidance (AA) actions in response to a stimulus causes changes in stimulus evaluations. Kawakami, Phills, Steele, and Dovidio (2007) and Jones, Vilensky, Vasey, and Fazio (2013) provided evidence that these AA training effects
PMID 26524002

Japanese Journal

Impairment of unconscious, but not conscious, gaze-triggered attention orienting in Asperger's disorder

Sato Wataru,Uono Shota,Okada Takashi,Toichi Motomi
Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders 4(4), 782-786, 2010-10
… Since all previous studies employed supraliminal presentation of gaze stimuli, we hypothesized that individuals with PDD may be impaired not in conscious but in unconscious gaze-triggered attention shift. … We tested the hypothesis in a group of Asperger's disorder (N = 12) and age- and gender-matched controls (N = 13), using a cueing paradigm with supraliminal and subliminal presentation of gaze cues. … Under supraliminal conditions, the gaze cueing effect was evident in both groups. …
NAID 120002561296

川畑秀明,関口達彦
電子情報通信学会技術研究報告. PRMU, パターン認識・メディア理解 108(198), 37-42, 2008-08-29
視線はコミュニケーションにおいて他者の心を理解する上で重要な役割を果たしている。これまで,他者の視線方向が示す位置方向へ自動的(反射的)な注意シフトを起こすことが心理学的に知られており,視線が向いた方向に提示されたターゲットに対して反応が促進される。本研究では,線画顔刺激において刺激提示時間を変数に,視線の意識的気づきに求められる時間的閾値を測定し,線画顔の瞳の位置を横線に置き換えた刺激,目の位置 …
NAID 110007087171