Browsing Psychology by Author "McCrackin, Sarah D."
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Feeling through another's eyes: Perceived gaze direction impacts ERP and behavioural measures of positive and negative affective empathy
McCrackin, Sarah D.; Itier, Roxane J. (Elsevier, 2021-02-01)Looking at the eyes informs us about the thoughts and emotions of those around us, and impacts our own emotional state. However, it is unknown how perceiving direct and averted gaze impacts our ability to share the gazer's ... -
The Gaze Cueing Effect and Its Enhancement by Facial Expressions Are Impacted by Task Demands: Direct Comparison of Target Localization and Discrimination Tasks
Chen, Zelin; McCrackin, Sarah D.; Morgan, Alicia; Itier, Roxane J. (Frontiers, 2021-03-11)The gaze cueing effect is characterized by faster attentional orienting to a gazed-at than a non-gazed-at target. This effect is often enhanced when the gazing face bears an emotional expression, though this finding is ... -
Individual differences in the emotional modulation of gaze-cuing
McCrackin, Sarah D.; Itier, Roxane J. (Taylor and Francis, 2018-07-08)Gaze-cuing refers to the spontaneous orienting of attention towards a gazed-at location, characterised by shorter response times to gazed-at than non-gazed at targets. Previous research suggests that processing of these ... -
Is it about me? Time-course of self-relevance and valence effects on the perception of neutral faces with direct and averted gaze
McCrackin, Sarah D.; Itier, Roxane J. (Elsevier, 2018-05-01)Most face processing research has investigated how we perceive faces presented by themselves, but we view faces everyday within a rich social context. Recent ERP research has demonstrated that context cues, including ... -
Meaningful faces: Self-relevance of semantic context in an initial social encounter improves later face recognition
McCrackin, Sarah D.; Lee, Christopher M.; Itier, Roxane J.; Fernandes, Myra A. (Springer, 2021-02)Self-relevant stimuli (i.e. meaningful/important to the observer and related to the self) are typically remembered better than other-relevant stimuli. However, whether a self-relevance memory benefit could be conferred to ... -
Perceived Gaze Direction Differentially Affects Discrimination of Facial Emotion, Attention, and Gender – An ERP Study
McCrackin, Sarah D.; Itier, Roxane J. (Frontiers, 2019-05-24)The perception of eye-gaze is thought to be a key component of our everyday social interactions. While the neural correlates of direct and averted gaze processing have been investigated, there is little consensus about how ... -
Perceiving direct and averted gaze during emotion discrimination, affective empathy and affective theory of mind judgements: electrophysiological and behavioural effects
McCrackin, Sarah D. (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-05)Our observations about the eye-gaze of others inform how we interact with them. Perception of direct gaze has been shown to impact emotional and self-referential processing differently than perception of averted gaze, which ... -
Spontaneous eye-movements in neutral and emotional gaze-cuing: An eye-tracking investigation
McCrackin, Sarah D; Soomal, Sarika K; Patel, Payal; Itier, Roxane J. (Elsevier, 2019-04)Our attention is spontaneously oriented in the direction where others are looking. This attention shift manifests as faster responses to peripheral targets when they are gazed at by a central face instead of gazed away ... -
The time-course of contextual valence and self-relevance effects on the perception of faces with direct versus averted gaze
McCrackin, Sarah D. (University of Waterloo, 2017-08-29)We see faces every day within a rich situational context. Previous ERP research has demonstrated that priming faces with contextual sentences varying in self-relevance and valence alters electrocortical and emotional ...