Social Attention

Bourjade, Marie

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“…When the direction of another’s attention has been identified (for example through gaze following or point following), we can shift our own attention to focus at the same time on the same external object or event as our partner. This process of joint attention is usually inferred from behavioral cues, including mainly gaze alternation between one’s partner and a specific referent ( Bourjade, 2017 ). Joint attention seems therefore necessary for individuals to perform joint action, i.e., to coordinate their actions in space and time to produce a joint outcome, whether it involves here symbolic play (with or without objects), construction toys, board games or any other forms of play.…”

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Contribution of Developmental Psychology to the Study of Social Interactions: Some Factors in Play, Joint Attention and Joint Action and Implications for Robotics

Cochet

Guidetti

2018

Front. Psychol.

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Children exchange information through multiple modalities, including verbal communication, gestures and social gaze and they gradually learn to plan their behavior and coordinate successfully with their partners. The development of joint attention and joint action, especially in the context of social play, provides rich opportunities for describing the characteristics of interactions that can lead to shared outcomes. In the present work, we argue that human–robot interactions (HRI) can benefit from these developmental studies, through influencing the human’s perception and interpretation of the robot’s behavior. We thus endeavor to describe some components that could be implemented in the robot to strengthen the feeling of dealing with a social agent, and therefore improve the success of collaborative tasks. Focusing in particular on motor precision, coordination, and anticipatory planning, we discuss the question of complexity in HRI. In the context of joint activities, we highlight the necessity of (1) considering multiple speech acts involving multimodal communication (both verbal and non-verbal signals), and (2) analyzing separately the forms and functions of communication. Finally, we examine some challenges related to robot competencies, such as the issue of language and symbol grounding, which might be tackled by bringing together expertise of researchers in developmental psychology and robotics.

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Section: How Does Communication Develop In the Context Of Social Playmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contribution of Developmental Psychology to the Study of Social Interactions: Some Factors in Play, Joint Attention and Joint Action and Implications for Robotics

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Guidetti

2018

Front. Psychol.

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“…In social animal groups, the ability to integrate different cues from facial expressions largely determines inter-individual interactions and influences group dynamics and cooperation, conceivably having an impact on survival (Bourjade, 2016). Nevertheless, the mechanisms by which our brains process these sensory cues from species other than humans remain relatively unexplored.…”

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Priming using Human and Chimpanzee Expressions of Emotion Biases Attention toward Positive Emotions

Matsulevits,

Kret

2023

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Perceiving and correctly interpreting emotional expressions is one of the most important abilities for social animals' communication. It determines the majority of social interactions, group dynamics, and cooperation, being highly relevant for an individual's survival. Core mechanisms of this ability have been hypothesized to be shared across closely related species with phylogenetic similarities. Here, we explored homologies in human processing of different species' facial expressions using eye-tracking. Introducing a prime-target paradigm, we tested the influences on human attention elicited by priming with differently valenced emotional stimuli depicting human and chimpanzee faces. We demonstrated an attention shift towards the conspecific (human) target picture that was congruent with the valence depicted in the primer picture. We did not find this effect with heterospecific (chimpanzee) primers and ruled out that this was due to participants interpreting them incorrectly. Implications about the involvement of related emotion-processing mechanisms for human and chimpanzee facial expressions, are discussed. Systematic cross-species-investigations of emotional expressions are needed to unravel how emotion representation mechanisms can extend to process other species' faces. Through such studies, we address the gap of a shared evolutionary ancestry between humans and other animals to ultimately answer the question of "Where do emotions come from?".

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Acquisition of joint attention by olive baboons gesturing toward humans

Lamaury¹,

Cochet²,

Bourjade³

2017

Anim Cogn

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Joint attention is a core ability of human social cognition which broadly refers to the coordination of attention with both the presence and activity of social partners. In both human and non-human primates, joint attention can be assessed from behaviour; gestures and gaze alternation between the partner and a distal object are standard behavioural manifestations of joint attention. Here we examined the acquisition of joint attention in olive baboons as a function of their individual experience of a human partner's attentional states during training regimes. Eleven olive baboons (Papio anubis) were observed during their training to perform food-requesting gestures, which occurred either by (1) a human facing them (face condition), or (2) by a human positioned in profile who never turned to them (profile condition). We found neither gestures nor gaze alternation were present at the start of the training but rather developed over the training period. Only baboons in the face condition showed an increase in the number of gaze alternations, and their gaze pattern progressively shifted to a coordinated sequence in which gazes and gestures were coordinated in time. In contrast, baboons trained by a human in profile showed significantly less coordination of gazes with gestures but still learned to request food with their gestures. These results suggest that the partner's social attention plays an important role in the acquisition of visual joint attention and, to a lesser extent, in gesture learning in baboons. Interspecific interactions appear to offer rich opportunities to manipulate and thus identify the social contexts in which socio-communicative skills develop.

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Social Attention

Cited by 4 publications

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Contribution of Developmental Psychology to the Study of Social Interactions: Some Factors in Play, Joint Attention and Joint Action and Implications for Robotics

Contribution of Developmental Psychology to the Study of Social Interactions: Some Factors in Play, Joint Attention and Joint Action and Implications for Robotics

Priming using Human and Chimpanzee Expressions of Emotion Biases Attention toward Positive Emotions

Acquisition of joint attention by olive baboons gesturing toward humans

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