De-evolving human eyes: The effect of eye camouflage on human attention.
Camouflage
Covert attention
Eye morphology
Overt attention
Social attention
Social cognition
Journal
Cognition
ISSN: 1873-7838
Titre abrégé: Cognition
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0367541
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2022
08 2022
Historique:
received:
28
07
2021
revised:
28
03
2022
accepted:
13
04
2022
pubmed:
26
4
2022
medline:
9
6
2022
entrez:
25
4
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Eyes are communicative. But what happens when eyes are camouflaged? In the present study, while either wearing sunglasses (that camouflaged the eyes) or clear glasses, participants were presented with sexually provocative and neutral images, which they viewed in the presence of another person who they knew was observing their eyes. Unbeknownst to the participants, however, we also surreptitiously monitored and recorded their eye gaze in both conditions. People spontaneously looked more and for longer at the sexually provocative images when their eyes were camouflaged by sunglasses. This finding provides convergent evidence for the proposal that covert attention operates in service of overt social attention, and suggests that decoupling overt and covert attention is much more prevalent than previously assumed. In doing so it also sheds light on the relation between the evolution of human eye morphology and systems of attention.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35468357
pii: S0010-0277(22)00124-X
doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105136
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
105136Informations de copyright
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