scholarly journals Both cue directionality and mental perspective contribute to social attention

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 2309
Author(s):  
Florence Mayrand ◽  
Sarah D. McCrackin ◽  
Francesca Capozzi ◽  
Jelena Ristic
Keyword(s):  
Social Attention

Individual differences, social attention, and the history of the social motivation hypotheses of autism

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Mundy
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Emotional Development ◽  
Social Motivation ◽  
Social Attention ◽  
Social Emotional Development ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Precise Understanding ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

Abstract The stereotype of people with autism as unresponsive or uninterested in other people was prominent in the 1980s. However, this view of autism has steadily given way to recognition of important individual differences in the social-emotional development of affected people and a more precise understanding of the possible role social motivation has in their early development.

Staring reality in the face: A comparison of social attention across laboratory and real world measures suggests little common ground.

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 212-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana A. Hayward ◽  
Willa Voorhies ◽  
Jenna L. Morris ◽  
Francesca Capozzi ◽  
Jelena Ristic
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Social Attention ◽  
The Face

Social Attention Effects Do Not Depend On Mental-state Attribution

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff G. Cole ◽  
Daniel T. Smith ◽  
Rebeccah-Claire Billing
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Social Attention ◽  
Mental State Attribution

Does context matter? Effects of robot appearance and reliability on social attention differs based on lifelikeness of gaze task

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulaziz Abubshait ◽  
Patrick P. Weis ◽  
Eva Wiese
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Physical Appearance ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Social Attention ◽  
Social Cues ◽  
Social Signals ◽  
Mind Perception ◽  
The Social ◽  
Behavioral Features

Social signals, such as changes in gaze direction, are essential cues to predict others’ mental states and behaviors (i.e., mentalizing). Studies show that humans can mentalize with non-human agents when they perceive a mind in them (i.e., mind perception). Robots that physically and/or behaviorally resemble humans likely trigger mind perception, which enhances the relevance of social cues and improves social-cognitive performance. The current ex-periments examine whether the effect of physical and behavioral influencers of mind perception on social-cognitive processing is modulated by the lifelikeness of a social interaction. Participants interacted with robots of varying degrees of physical (humanlike vs. robot-like) and behavioral (reliable vs. random) human-likeness while the lifelikeness of a social attention task was manipulated across five experiments. The first four experiments manipulated lifelikeness via the physical realism of the robot images (Study 1 and 2), the biological plausibility of the social signals (Study 3), and the plausibility of the social con-text (Study 4). They showed that humanlike behavior affected social attention whereas appearance affected mind perception ratings. However, when the lifelikeness of the interaction was increased by using videos of a human and a robot sending the social cues in a realistic environment (Study 5), social attention mechanisms were affected both by physical appearance and behavioral features, while mind perception ratings were mainly affected by physical appearance. This indicates that in order to understand the effect of physical and behavioral features on social cognition, paradigms should be used that adequately simulate the lifelikeness of social interactions.

The Role of Head Orientation in Social Attention Shift

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-219
Author(s):  
Shang LU ◽  
Ye LIU ◽  
Xiaolan FU
Keyword(s):  
Social Attention ◽  
Head Orientation ◽  
Attention Shift

scholarly journals Electric signal synchronization as a behavioural strategy to generate social attention in small groups of mormyrid weakly electric fish and a mobile fish robot

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Worm ◽  
Tim Landgraf ◽  
Gerhard von der Emde
Keyword(s):  
Small Groups ◽  
Electric Fish ◽  
Social Attention ◽  
Weakly Electric Fish ◽  
Electric Signal ◽  
Fish Robot ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Signal Synchronization ◽  
Weakly Electric ◽  
Attention Hypothesis

AbstractAfrican weakly electric fish communicate at night by constantly emitting and perceiving brief electrical signals (electric organ discharges, EOD) at variable inter-discharge intervals (IDI). While the waveform of single EODs contains information about the sender’s identity, the variable IDI patterns convey information about its current motivational and behavioural state. Pairs of fish can synchronize their EODs to each other via echo responses, and we have previously formulated a ‘social attention hypothesis’ stating that fish use echo responses to address specific individuals and establish brief dyadic communication frameworks within a group. Here, we employed a mobile fish robot to investigate the behaviour of small groups of up to four Mormyrus rume and characterized the social situations during which synchronizations occurred. An EOD-emitting robot reliably evoked social following behaviour, which was strongest in smaller groups and declined with increasing group size. We did not find significant differences in motor behaviour of M. rume with either an interactive playback (echo response) or a random control playback by the robot. Still, the robot reliably elicited mutual synchronizations with other fish. Synchronizations mostly occurred during relatively close social interactions, usually when the fish that initiated synchronization approached either the robot or another fish from a distance. The results support our social attention hypothesis and suggest that electric signal synchronization might facilitate the exchange of social information during a wide range of social behaviours from aggressive territorial displays to shoaling and even cooperative hunting in some mormyrids.

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