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Data from: Monsters are people too Levy, Julian; Foulsham, Tom; Kingstone, Alan

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Animals, including dogs, dolphins, monkeys and man, follow gaze. What mediates this bias towards the eyes? One hypothesis is that primates possess a distinct neural module that is uniquely tuned for the eyes of others. An alternative explanation is that configural face processing drives fixations to the middle of peoples' faces, which is where the eyes happen to be located. We distinguish between these two accounts. Observers were presented with images of people, non-human creatures with eyes in the middle of their faces (`humanoids’) or creatures with eyes positioned elsewhere (`monsters’). There was a profound and significant bias towards looking early and often at the eyes of humans and humanoids and also, critically, at the eyes of monsters. These findings demonstrate that the eyes, and not the middle of the head, are being targeted by the oculomotor system.
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Title	Data from: Monsters are people too
Creator	Levy, Julian; Foulsham, Tom; Kingstone, Alan
Date Issued	2021-05-19
Description	Abstract Animals, including dogs, dolphins, monkeys and man, follow gaze. What mediates this bias towards the eyes? One hypothesis is that primates possess a distinct neural module that is uniquely tuned for the eyes of others. An alternative explanation is that configural face processing drives fixations to the middle of peoples' faces, which is where the eyes happen to be located. We distinguish between these two accounts. Observers were presented with images of people, non-human creatures with eyes in the middle of their faces (`humanoids’) or creatures with eyes positioned elsewhere (`monsters’). There was a profound and significant bias towards looking early and often at the eyes of humans and humanoids and also, critically, at the eyes of monsters. These findings demonstrate that the eyes, and not the middle of the head, are being targeted by the oculomotor system.; Usage notes MonstersBL_final_stats
Subject	Other; Primates; Social attention; gaze selection; gaze following
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Notes	Dryad version number: 1 Version status: submitted Dryad curation status: Published Sharing link: https://datadryad.org/stash/share/_P74al5XLDW-cVn6R1881ST9TWNjxucMNL_F8ozIsGI</p> Storage size: 71248 Visibility: public
Date Available	2020-06-30
Provider	University of British Columbia Library
License	CC0 1.0
DOI	10.14288/1.0397775
URI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/KTJC7S
Publisher DOI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/KTJC7S; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.4rk06
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
Aggregated Source Repository	Dataverse

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