Unit:
Τομέας Φιλοσοφίας και Θεωρίας της Επιστήμης και της ΤεχνολογίαςLibrary of the School of Science
Author:
Ρουχίτσας Αλέξανδρος
Supervisors info:
Αναπλ. Καθηγητής ΕΚΠΑ Αθανάσιος Πρωτόπαπας (επιβλέπων),Λέκτορας Πανεπιστημίου Cardiff Catherina Jones, Ερευνήτρια Αργυρώ Βατάκη
Original Title:
How gaze affects time perception
Translated title:
Πως το βλέμμα επιδρά στην χρονική αντίληψη
Summary:
Studies have shown that direct gaze engages attention more efficiently compared
to averted gaze, leading to greater interference with concurrent or
immediately-following cognitive processing. Moreover, this attentional effect
is in some cases reported to be rather short-lived, manifesting clearly at
short stimulus durations while subsiding significantly or disappearing
completely at longer ones. The attentional-gate model, the dominant model in
human temporal perception, holds a central role for attention in duration
estimation. The model predicts that attentional engagement in non temporal
information processing will lead to interval underestimation. We hypothesized
that a direct gaze would lead to greater interval underestimation via more
efficient attentional engagement compared to an averted gaze, and that this
would be a transient effect, manifesting only in the shorter intervals. Our
results verified our hypotheses and they are interpreted based on the
attentional-gate model framework.
Keywords:
Gaze perception, Time perception, Visual cognition, Nonverbal communication, Attentional-gate model
