Browsing Waterloo Research by Author "McCrackin, Sarah D."
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Both fearful and happy expressions interact with gaze direction by 200 ms SOA to speed attention orienting
McCrackin, Sarah D.; Itier, Roxane J. (Taylor and Francis, 2018-01-16)Attention orienting towards a gazed-at location is fundamental to social attention. Whether gaze cues can interact with emotional expressions other than those signalling environmental threat to modulate this gaze cueing, ... -
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 ... -
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 ...