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Ford, Ben 
ORCID: 0000-0001-7502-7505, Monk, Rebecca, Litchfield, Damien and Qureshi, Adam
(2024)
Agent-Object Relationships in Level-2 Visual Perspective Taking: An Eye-Tracking Study.
Journal of Cognition, 7 (1).
pp. 1-17.
doi:10.5334/joc.398
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Abstract
Visual perspective taking (VPT) generates a shared frame of reference for understanding how the world appears to others. Whilst greater cognitive and neurophysiological demands are associated with increasing angular distance between the self and other is well documented, accompanying attentional characteristics are not currently understood. Furthermore, although age and group status have been shown to impact task performance, other important cues, such as the relationship between agents and objects, have not been manipulated. Therefore, 35 university students participated in an eye-tracking experiment where they completed a VPT task with agents positioned at a low or high angular disparity (45° or 135° respectively). The congruence between the age of the agent (child vs adult) and the object they are attending to (e.g., teddy-bear vs kettle) was also manipulated. Participants were required to respond to the direction of the object from the agent's position. The findings reveal more fixations and increased dwell-times on agents compared to objects, but this was moderated by the age of the task agent. Results also showed more attentional transitions between agents and objects at higher angular disparities. These results converge with behavioural and neurophysiological descriptions of task performance in previous studies. Furthermore, the congruency of the relationship between agents and objects also impacted attention shifting and response times, highlighting the importance of understanding how social cues and contexts can modulate VPT processes in everyday contexts and social interaction.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Article Type: | Article |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Agent object relationships; Eye-tracking; Intentionality; Level-2; Object congruency; Stereotype; Visual perspective taking. |
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) R Medicine > RE Ophthalmology |
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Education and Science |
| Depositing User: | Charlotte Crutchlow |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Oct 2024 15:28 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Nov 2024 16:45 |
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/14449 |
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