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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Neuroscience
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

  • Gaze-contingent environments, where eye movements control interactions, are becoming more prevalent with new technologies.
  • Understanding gaze agency is crucial for navigating these interactive environments and for assessing self-awareness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and validate a novel method for measuring gaze agency.
  • To investigate the role of self-monitoring propensity and sensitivity in gaze agency.

Main Methods:

  • Developed two tasks: a Discovery Task to assess agency discovery and a Detection Task for sensori-motor agency sensitivity.
  • Manipulated self-awareness through pre-exposure and attentional focus on the eyes.

Main Results:

  • Manipulations of self-awareness successfully increased propensity for agency discovery.
  • Both tasks effectively measured increases and decreases in gaze agency.
  • No significant oculomotor correlates were found for agency discovery or detection.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed method offers a unique way to assess gaze agency, focusing on self-monitoring propensity.
  • Measuring gaze agency can provide insights into cognitive functions and potential self-awareness deficits in clinical and developmental contexts.