期刊
NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA
卷 42, 期 12, 页码 1657-1665出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.04.009
关键词
attention; frontal lobes; eye gaze direction; social attention; theory-of-mind
资金
- NIA NIH HHS [AG/NS15071] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [MH60636] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [P01 NS19632] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R03MH060636] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [P01NS019632] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [R01AG015071] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Humans are able to predict the behavior of others. Several studies have investigated this capability by determining if social cues, such as eye gaze direction, can influence the allocation of visual attention. When a viewer sees a face looking to the left, the viewer's attention is allocated in the gazed-at direction. These 'social attention' studies have asked if this allocation of attention is automatic or under voluntary control. In this paper, we show that a patient with frontal-lobe damage is impaired at allocating attention to peripheral locations voluntarily, although attention can be allocated there automatically. The patient, EVR, can use peripheral cues to selectively process one location over another but cannot use symbolic cues (words) to allocate attention. EVR is also impaired in using eye gaze cues to allocate attention, suggesting that 'social attention' may involve frontal-lobe processes that control voluntary, not automatic, shifts of visuospatial attention. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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