Cultural differences in joint attention and engagement in mutual gaze with a robot face

S Marchesi, A Abubshait, K Kompatsiari, Y Wu… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Joint attention is a pivotal mechanism underlying human ability to interact with one another.
The fundamental nature of joint attention in the context of social cognition has led …

Individual differences in gaze-cuing effect are associated with facial emotion recognition and social conformity

WG Shin, H Park, SP Kim, S Sul - Frontiers in psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Spontaneous gaze following and the concomitant joint attention enable us to share
representations of the world with others, which forms a foundation of a broad range of social …

[PDF][PDF] A Decade of Dedication: Pioneering Perspectives on Neurological Diseases and Mental Illnesses

M Tanaka, L Vécsei - Biomedicines, 2024 - mdpi.com
Welcome to Biomedicines' 10th Anniversary Special Issue, a journey through the human
mind's labyrinth and complex neurological pathways. This edition, focused on “Translational …

[HTML][HTML] Gaze cueing in older and younger adults is elicited by a social robot seen from the back

L Morillo-Mendez, OM Mozos… - Cognitive Systems …, 2023 - Elsevier
The ability to follow the gaze of others deteriorates with age. This decline is typically tested
with gaze cueing tasks, in which the time it takes to respond to targets on a screen is faster …

The impact of facial expression and communicative gaze of a humanoid robot on individual Sense of Agency

M Lombardi, C Roselli, K Kompatsiari, F Rospo… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Sense of Agency (SoA) is the feeling of control over one's actions and their
outcomes. A well-established implicit measure of SoA is the temporal interval estimation …

Mentalistic attention orienting triggered by android eyes

W Sato, K Shimokawa, S Uono, T Minato - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The eyes play a special role in human communications. Previous psychological studies
have reported reflexive attention orienting in response to another individual's eyes during …

Tools and methods to study and replicate experiments addressing human social cognition in interactive scenarios

S Marchesi, D De Tommaso, K Kompatsiari… - Behavior Research …, 2024 - Springer
In the last decade, scientists investigating human social cognition have started bringing
traditional laboratory paradigms more “into the wild” to examine how socio-cognitive …

Differences in social expectations about robot signals and human signals

L Parenti, M Belkaid, A Wykowska - Cognitive Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In our daily lives, we are continually involved in decision‐making situations, many of which
take place in the context of social interaction. Despite the ubiquity of such situations, there …

Modulatory Effects of Communicative Gaze on Attentional Orienting Are Driven by Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex but Not Right Temporoparietal Junction

A Abubshait, K Kompatsiari, P Cardellicchio… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Communicative gaze (eg, mutual or averted) has been shown to affect attentional orienting.
However, no study to date has clearly separated the neural basis of the pure social …

[HTML][HTML] Robot's social gaze affects conflict resolution but not conflict adaptations

F Ciardo, A Wykowska - Journal of Cognition, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Robots are a new category of social agents that, thanks to their embodiment, can be used to
train and support cognitive skills such as cognitive control. Several studies showed that …