Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Social gaze-following consists of both reflexive and volitionalcontrol mechanisms of saccades, similar to those evaluated inthe antisaccade task. This similarity makes gaze-following anideal medium for studying attention in a social context. Thepresent study seeks to utilize reflexive gaze-following to de-velop a social paradigm for measuring attention control. Weevaluate two gaze-following variations of the antisaccade task.In version 1, participants are cued with still images of a socialpartner looking either left or right. In version 2, participantsare cued with videos of a social partner shifting their gaze tothe left or right. As with the traditional antisaccade task, par-ticipants were required to look in the opposite direction of thetarget stimuli (i.e., gaze cues). Performance on the new gaze-following antisaccade tasks are compared to the traditional an-tisaccade task and the highly related ability of working mem-ory.