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Perception of direct vs. averted gaze in portrait paintings : An fMRI and eyetracking study

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F18%3A00101677" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/18:00101677 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/68081740:_____/18:00496264 RIV/00023001:_____/18:00077410

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S027826261730221X?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S027826261730221X?via%3Dihub</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2018.06.004" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.bandc.2018.06.004</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Perception of direct vs. averted gaze in portrait paintings : An fMRI and eyetracking study

  • Original language description

    In this study, we use separate eye-tracking measurements and functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the neuronal and behavioral response to painted portraits with direct versus averted gaze. We further explored modulatory effects of several painting characteristics (premodern vs modern period, influence of style and pictorial context). In the fMRI experiment, we show that the direct versus averted gaze elicited increased activation in lingual and inferior occipital and the fusiform face area, as well as in several areas involved in attentional and social cognitive processes, especially the theory of mind: angular gyrus/temporo-parietal junction, inferior frontal gyrus and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. The additional eye-tracking experiment showed that participants spent more time viewing the portrait’s eyes and mouth when the portrait’s gaze was directed towards the observer. These results suggest that static and, in some cases, highly stylized depictions of human beings in artistic portraits elicit brain activation commensurate with the experience of being observed by a watchful intelligent being. They thus involve observers in implicit inferences of the painted subject’s mental states and emotions. We further confirm the substantial influence of representational medium on brain activity.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50103 - Cognitive sciences

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/GA15-08577S" target="_blank" >GA15-08577S: Affective response in visual arts: linking art history and neuroscience perspectives</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Others

  • Publication year

    2018

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Brain and Cognition

  • ISSN

    0278-2626

  • e-ISSN

    0075-6334

  • Volume of the periodical

    125

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    8

  • Country of publishing house

    US - UNITED STATES

  • Number of pages

    12

  • Pages from-to

    88-99

  • UT code for WoS article

    000441704500011

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85048644267