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SUMMARY:The social side of social attention - Giovanni Galfano\, Associate
  Professor\, Cognition and Language Lab\, Department of Developmental Psyc
 hology\, University of Padova
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CONTACT:Nichola Daily
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, research has shown that individuals presente
 d with a face showing a task-irrelevant averted gaze\, tend to produce cov
 ert shifts of attention in the corresponding direction. Despite gaze being
  an important social signal\, only few studies have addressed possible mod
 ulations of gaze cueing as a function of social factors. In the talk\, I w
 ill present results from recent ERP and behavioural investigations with hu
 man participants in which my colleagues and I have manipulated emotional e
 xpression of the cueing face and social aspects related to the identity of
  the cueing face and the identity of the participants. Overall\, the resul
 ts seem to support the notion that social variables can influence gaze cue
 ing to a large extent\, although these effects are likely context-dependen
 t. Possible implications of the results as regards automaticity of social 
 attention behaviour will be discussed.
LOCATION:Department of Experimental Psychology\, 2nd Floor Seminar Room\, 
 Downing Site
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