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  • Understanding others' mental states is crucial for social interaction.
  • Mental state attributions are thought to influence social attention and orienting.
  • Recent studies question whether mentalizing truly drives gaze cueing effects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if gaze cueing is mediated by mental state attributions across different experimental paradigms.
  • To determine if the effect of mental state attribution on gaze cueing is robust and generalizable.

Main Methods:

  • Employed a gaze cueing paradigm integrated into a change detection task.
  • Manipulated the cue-agent's visual perception (ability to 'see') in experimental conditions.
  • Assessed participants' ability to detect changes based on gaze cues.

Main Results:

  • Participants' performance improved on valid trials when the cue-agent was perceived to be 'seeing'.
  • This indicates that the cue-agent's mental state significantly influenced participants' attentional orienting.
  • The findings support the role of mental state computation in modulating gaze cueing.

Conclusions:

  • Mental state attributions demonstrably mediate gaze cueing effects.
  • The influence of mental state attribution on gaze cueing generalizes beyond specific experimental setups.
  • This reinforces the importance of mentalizing processes in social attention.