This title appears in the Scientific Report :
2010
Please use the identifier:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsq024 in citations.
Its in your eyes – using gaze-contingent stimuli to create truly interactive paradigms for social cognitive and affective neuroscience
Its in your eyes – using gaze-contingent stimuli to create truly interactive paradigms for social cognitive and affective neuroscience
The field of social neuroscience has made remarkable progress in elucidating the neural mechanisms of social cognition. More recently, the need for new experimental approaches has been highlighted that allow studying social encounters in a truly interactive manner by establishing 'online'...
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Personal Name(s): | Wilms, M. |
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Schilbach, L. / Pfeiffer, U: / Bente, G. / Fink, G. R. | |
Contributing Institute: |
Kognitive Neurowissenschaften; INM-3 |
Published in: | Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 5 (2010) S. 98 - 107 |
Imprint: |
Oxford
Oxford Univ. Press
2010
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Physical Description: |
98 - 107 |
PubMed ID: |
20223797 |
DOI: |
10.1093/scan/nsq024 |
Document Type: |
Journal Article |
Research Program: |
(Dys-)function and Plasticity Funktion und Dysfunktion des Nervensystems |
Series Title: |
SCAN
5 |
Subject (ZB): | |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
The field of social neuroscience has made remarkable progress in elucidating the neural mechanisms of social cognition. More recently, the need for new experimental approaches has been highlighted that allow studying social encounters in a truly interactive manner by establishing 'online' reciprocity in social interaction. In this article, we present a newly developed adaptation of a method which uses eyetracking data obtained from participants in real time to control visual stimulation during functional magnetic resonance imaging, thus, providing an innovative tool to generate gaze-contingent stimuli in spite of the constraints of this experimental setting. We review results of two paradigms employing this technique and demonstrate how gaze data can be used to animate a virtual character whose behavior becomes 'responsive' to being looked at allowing the participant to engage in 'online' interaction with this virtual other in real-time. Possible applications of this setup are discussed highlighting the potential of this development as a new 'tool of the trade' in social cognitive and affective neuroscience. |