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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Social Cognition

Background:

  • Gaze direction is crucial for social interaction.
  • Working memory (WM) is essential for retaining information, including social cues like gaze.
  • The role of face context in gaze working memory is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how working memory stores gaze direction.
  • To determine the influence of face context on gaze working memory.
  • To test competing hypotheses: independence vs. embedding of gaze in face context.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted using schematic and photographic faces.
  • Holistic face processing was disrupted using inverted faces and scrambled faces.
  • Working memory performance for gaze direction was compared within intact faces, scrambled faces, and without faces.

Main Results:

  • Gaze within upright schematic faces was better remembered than within inverted faces.
  • Photographic gaze within intact faces was better remembered than gaze alone or within scrambled faces.
  • Disrupting holistic face processing impaired memory for gaze direction.

Conclusions:

  • Gaze working memory is dependent on face context.
  • Findings support the embedding hypothesis, suggesting gaze is processed within the face representation.
  • This highlights the integrated nature of face and gaze perception in working memory.