Social beliefs and visual attention: How the social relevance of a cue influences spatial orienting

MS Gobel, MRA Tufft, DC Richardson - Cognitive science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We are highly tuned to each other's visual attention. Perceiving the eye or hand movements
of another person can influence the timing of a saccade or the reach of our own. However …

Autistic traits predict poor integration between top-down contextual expectations and movement kinematics during action observation

L Amoruso, A Finisguerra, C Urgesi - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Autism is associated with difficulties in predicting and understanding other people's actions.
There is evidence that autistic traits are distributed across a spectrum and that subclinical …

The role of transients in action observation

GG Cole, TN Welsh, PA Skarratt - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2019 - Springer
A large number of studies have now described the various ways in which the observation of
another person's dynamic movement can influence the speed with which the observer is …

The sociality of social inhibition of return

O Nafcha, S Shamay-Tsoory, S Gabay - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
Cognitive processes are traditionally studied in individual settings, while the possible effect
of the social context is ignored. The present study focuses on the social inhibition of return …

Action or attention in social inhibition of return?

SP Doneva, MA Atkinson, PA Skarratt, GG Cole - Psychological research, 2017 - Springer
When two individuals alternate reaching responses to targets located in a visual display,
reaction times are longer when responses are directed to where the co-actor just responded …

The effect of co-actor group membership on the social inhibition of return effect

O Nafcha, A Morshed-Sakran, S Shamay-Tsoory… - Acta Psychologica, 2020 - Elsevier
Being part of a group is a crucial factor in human social interaction. In the current study we
explored whether group membership affects reflexive automatic cognitive functioning, and …

Are goal states represented during kinematic imitation?

GG Cole, MA Atkinson, ADC D'Souza… - Journal of …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
A number of studies have shown that observation of another person's actions can modulate
one's own actions, such as when 2 individuals cooperate in order to complete a joint task …

Response-specific effects in a joint action task: social inhibition of return effects do not emerge when observed and executed actions are different

J Manzone, GG Cole, PA Skarratt, TN Welsh - Psychological research, 2017 - Springer
Although the inhibition of return (IOR) effect is primarily studied when people act individually,
IOR is also observed in social environments where a person observes a partner's response …

Cognition-in-the-world: the cognitive attunement hypothesis of social offloading

MRA Tufft - 2022 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Cognition is at home in a lived-in world. We are embedded in complex environments and
generate our understanding of the world through countless active and action-oriented …

Attention allocation in complementary joint action: How joint goals affect spatial orienting

L Schmitz, B Wahn, M Krüger - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2023 - Springer
When acting jointly, individuals often attend and respond to the same object or spatial
location in complementary ways (eg, when passing a mug, one person grasps its handle …