Face Masks Do Not Alter Gaze Cueing of Attention: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic

Interacting with others wearing a face mask has become a regular worldwide practice since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the impact of face masks on cognitive mechanisms supporting social interaction is still largely unexplored. In the present work, we focused on gaze cueing of att...

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Autores principales:	Mario Dalmaso, Xinyuan Zhang, Giovanni Galfano, Luigi Castelli
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Publicado:	SAGE Publishing 2021
Materias:	Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:73aee2c26391467498fdb56441ce80792021-12-01T23:34:09ZFace Masks Do Not Alter Gaze Cueing of Attention: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic2041-669510.1177/20416695211058480https://doaj.org/article/73aee2c26391467498fdb56441ce80792021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1177/20416695211058480https://doaj.org/toc/2041-6695Interacting with others wearing a face mask has become a regular worldwide practice since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the impact of face masks on cognitive mechanisms supporting social interaction is still largely unexplored. In the present work, we focused on gaze cueing of attention, a phenomenon tapping the essential ability which allows individuals to orient their attentional resources in response to eye gaze signals coming from others. Participants from both a European (i.e., Italy; Experiment 1) and an Asian (i.e., China; Experiment 2) country were involved, namely two countries in which the daily use of face masks before COVID-19 pandemic was either extremely uncommon or frequently adopted, respectively. Both samples completed a task in which a peripheral target had to be discriminated while a task irrelevant averted gaze face, wearing a mask or not, acted as a central cueing stimulus. Overall, a reliable and comparable gaze cueing emerged in both experiments, independent of the mask condition. These findings suggest that gaze cueing of attention is preserved even when the person perceived is wearing a face mask.Mario DalmasoXinyuan ZhangGiovanni GalfanoLuigi CastelliSAGE PublishingarticlePsychologyBF1-990ENi-Perception, Vol 12 (2021)
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description	Interacting with others wearing a face mask has become a regular worldwide practice since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the impact of face masks on cognitive mechanisms supporting social interaction is still largely unexplored. In the present work, we focused on gaze cueing of attention, a phenomenon tapping the essential ability which allows individuals to orient their attentional resources in response to eye gaze signals coming from others. Participants from both a European (i.e., Italy; Experiment 1) and an Asian (i.e., China; Experiment 2) country were involved, namely two countries in which the daily use of face masks before COVID-19 pandemic was either extremely uncommon or frequently adopted, respectively. Both samples completed a task in which a peripheral target had to be discriminated while a task irrelevant averted gaze face, wearing a mask or not, acted as a central cueing stimulus. Overall, a reliable and comparable gaze cueing emerged in both experiments, independent of the mask condition. These findings suggest that gaze cueing of attention is preserved even when the person perceived is wearing a face mask.
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title	Face Masks Do Not Alter Gaze Cueing of Attention: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_short	Face Masks Do Not Alter Gaze Cueing of Attention: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full	Face Masks Do Not Alter Gaze Cueing of Attention: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Face Masks Do Not Alter Gaze Cueing of Attention: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic

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