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Isabelle Mareschal¹, Andrew J Calder, Mark R Dadds

¹School of Psychology, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. i.mareschal@qmul.ac.uk

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Understanding gaze perception is key to social interaction. This study reveals how visual signal strength influences our perception of direct gaze, offering insights into normal visual processing.

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Area of Science:

Visual perception
Social cognition
Psychophysics

Background:

Accurate perception of gaze direction is fundamental for social interactions and predicting intentions.
The 'cone of direct gaze' quantifies perception, serving as a benchmark for studying atypical gaze behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how signal strength affects gaze perception.
To develop a model explaining gaze categorization based on signal uncertainty.

Main Methods:

Manipulated signal strength using synthetic faces with added noise or removed facial information.
Collected data on observers' judgments of direct gaze.
Fitted a computational model to the collected data.

Main Results:

Signal strength significantly influenced the perception of direct gaze.
A model incorporating changing uncertainty, dependent on signal strength, accurately accounted for all experimental data.
This approach moves beyond descriptive accounts to mechanistic explanations.

Conclusions:

The developed model provides valuable insights into the visual processes underlying normal gaze perception.
Understanding gaze perception mechanisms is crucial for both typical and atypical social cognition research.
This work establishes a framework for analyzing gaze perception under varying visual conditions.