Eye contact detection in humans from birth

By T. Farroni, Gergely Csibra, F. Simion, Mark H. Johnson. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Social learning and social cognition: The case for pedagogy (2006, background): “When they can choose, newborns prefer to look at a face directly looking at them, whether that face is a realistic photograph ( Farroni, Csibra, Simion, & Johnson, 2002 ) or a schematic drawing (Farroni et al., 2004).”
2. Evolutionary context of human development: the cooperative breeding model (2005, background): “By three to four months human infants smile less at adults who avert their gaze, but resume smiling when the adult looks straight at them (Farroni et al. 2002).”
Theory of Mind and Neurodevelopmental Disorders of Childhood (2011, background): “Although children can distinguish direct and averted gaze motion at a younger age (12,13), they cannot make explicit judgments of direct gaze and certain inferences until the age of 3 or 4 (14).”
Gaze Following in Newborns (2004, methodology): “Another possibility is that newborns preferentially attend more to the stimulus that is more similar to the general spatial arrangement of a face (Farroni et al., 2002 tion of high-contrast elements relating to the location of the eyes and mouth (Conspec).”
Face scanning in chimpanzees and humans: continuity and discontinuity (2010, background): “It is known that the differential patterns involving direct/averted gaze emerge early in life (within a few days/weeks) in humans (Farroni et al. 2002), chimpanzees (Myowa-Yamakoshi et al. 2003) and monkeys (Mendelson et al. 1982).”
Neuroconstructivism - I: How the Brain Constructs Cognition (2007, background): “Similarly, evidence shows that infants prefer to look at faces that show direct gaze towards them (Farroni et al., 2002).”
Cognitive Developmental Robotics: A Survey (2009, background): “For example, early sensitivities for directing gaze toward the infant has been located in infant’s medial occipital event-related potential [158].”
Cross-cultural Reading the Mind in the Eyes: An fMRI Investigation (2010, background): “The eyes capture significantly more attention than do other areas of the face both in adults ( Janik, Wellens, Goldberg, & Dell’Osso, 1978) and in infants ( Farroni, Csibra, Simion, & Johnson, 2002 ), an attraction that is arguably inborn (Baron-Cohen, 1995; Argyle & Cook, 1976).”
Eye-Catching Odors: Olfaction Elicits Sustained Gazing to Faces and Eyes in 4-Month-Old Infants (2013, background): “Infants also look longer at faces which eyes are directed straight ahead than at faces with eyes averted [41].”
Recognizing Communicative Intentions in Infancy (2010, background): “For example, the preference for direct gaze is present at birth in human infants (Farroni et al., 2002, 2004a, 2005), while the chimpanzees in this study were 10 to 32 weeks old.”
Eye-Tracking in Educational Practice: Investigating Visual Perception Underlying Teaching and Learning in the Classroom (2020, background): “Learner-Teacher Interaction Already from a very young age on, humans are able to infer where other persons are looking, simply by looking at their eyes (Antsis et al. 1969; Farroni et al. 2002).”