The Mona Lisa Effect: Neural Correlates of Centered and Off-Centered Gaze
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- Zeitschriftenaufsatz
- Metadaten:
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- Autoren
- Evgenia Boyarskaya
- Alexandra Sebastian
- Thomas Bauermann
- Heiko Hecht
- Oliver Tuescher
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=fis-test-1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000348378800016&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL
- DOI
- 10.1002/hbm.22651
- eISSN
- 1097-0193
- Externe Identifier
- Clarivate Analytics Document Solution ID: AZ7DN
- PubMed Identifier: 25327821
- ISSN
- 1065-9471
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 2
- Zeitschrift
- HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
- Schlüsselwörter
- Mona Lisa effect
- cone of gaze
- gaze perception
- eye contact
- superior temporal sulcus
- fusiform gyrus
- Paginierung
- 619 - 632
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2015
- Status
- Published
- Titel
- The Mona Lisa Effect: Neural Correlates of Centered and Off-Centered Gaze
- Sub types
- Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 36
Datenquelle: Web of Science (Lite)
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- Abstract
- <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The Mona Lisa effect describes the phenomenon when the eyes of a portrait appear to look at the observer regardless of the observer's position. Recently, the metaphor of a cone of gaze has been proposed to describe the range of gaze directions within which a person feels looked at. The width of the gaze cone is about five degrees of visual angle to either side of a given gaze direction. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate how the brain regions involved in gaze direction discrimination would differ between centered and decentered presentation positions of a portrait exhibiting eye contact. Subjects observed a given portrait's eyes. By presenting portraits with varying gaze directions—eye contact (0°), gaze at the edge of the gaze cone (5°), and clearly averted gaze (10°), we revealed that brain response to gaze at the edge of the gaze cone was similar to that produced by eye contact and different from that produced by averted gaze. Right fusiform gyrus and right superior temporal sulcus showed stronger activation when the gaze was averted as compared to eye contact. Gaze sensitive areas, however, were not affected by the portrait's presentation location. In sum, although the brain clearly distinguishes averted from centered gaze, a substantial change of vantage point does not alter neural activity, thus providing a possible explanation why the feeling of eye contact is upheld even in decentered stimulus positions. <jats:italic>Hum Brain Mapp 36:619–632, 2015</jats:italic>. © <jats:bold>2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc</jats:bold>.</jats:p>
- Autoren
- Evgenia Boyarskaya
- Alexandra Sebastian
- Thomas Bauermann
- Heiko Hecht
- Oliver Tüscher
- DOI
- 10.1002/hbm.22651
- eISSN
- 1097-0193
- ISSN
- 1065-9471
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 2
- Zeitschrift
- Human Brain Mapping
- Sprache
- en
- Online publication date
- 2014
- Paginierung
- 619 - 632
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2015
- Status
- Published
- Herausgeber
- Wiley
- Herausgeber URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22651
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2023
- Titel
- The Mona Lisa effect: Neural correlates of centered and off‐centered gaze
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 36
Datenquelle: Crossref
- Abstract
- The Mona Lisa effect describes the phenomenon when the eyes of a portrait appear to look at the observer regardless of the observer's position. Recently, the metaphor of a cone of gaze has been proposed to describe the range of gaze directions within which a person feels looked at. The width of the gaze cone is about five degrees of visual angle to either side of a given gaze direction. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate how the brain regions involved in gaze direction discrimination would differ between centered and decentered presentation positions of a portrait exhibiting eye contact. Subjects observed a given portrait's eyes. By presenting portraits with varying gaze directions-eye contact (0°), gaze at the edge of the gaze cone (5°), and clearly averted gaze (10°), we revealed that brain response to gaze at the edge of the gaze cone was similar to that produced by eye contact and different from that produced by averted gaze. Right fusiform gyrus and right superior temporal sulcus showed stronger activation when the gaze was averted as compared to eye contact. Gaze sensitive areas, however, were not affected by the portrait's presentation location. In sum, although the brain clearly distinguishes averted from centered gaze, a substantial change of vantage point does not alter neural activity, thus providing a possible explanation why the feeling of eye contact is upheld even in decentered stimulus positions.
- Addresses
- Department of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany; Neuroimaging Center of the Focus Program Translational Neurosciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.
- Autoren
- Evgenia Boyarskaya
- Alexandra Sebastian
- Thomas Bauermann
- Heiko Hecht
- Oliver Tüscher
- DOI
- 10.1002/hbm.22651
- eISSN
- 1097-0193
- Externe Identifier
- PubMed Identifier: 25327821
- PubMed Central ID: PMC6869588
- Open access
- false
- ISSN
- 1065-9471
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 2
- Zeitschrift
- Human brain mapping
- Schlüsselwörter
- Eye
- Brain
- Humans
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Brain Mapping
- Photic Stimulation
- Visual Perception
- Judgment
- Neuropsychological Tests
- Fixation, Ocular
- Adult
- Female
- Male
- Portraits as Topic
- Young Adult
- Sprache
- eng
- Medium
- Print-Electronic
- Online publication date
- 2014
- Paginierung
- 619 - 632
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2015
- Status
- Published
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2014
- Titel
- The Mona Lisa effect: neural correlates of centered and off-centered gaze.
- Sub types
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- research-article
- Journal Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 36
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- Abstract
- The Mona Lisa effect describes the phenomenon when the eyes of a portrait appear to look at the observer regardless of the observer's position. Recently, the metaphor of a cone of gaze has been proposed to describe the range of gaze directions within which a person feels looked at. The width of the gaze cone is about five degrees of visual angle to either side of a given gaze direction. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate how the brain regions involved in gaze direction discrimination would differ between centered and decentered presentation positions of a portrait exhibiting eye contact. Subjects observed a given portrait's eyes. By presenting portraits with varying gaze directions-eye contact (0°), gaze at the edge of the gaze cone (5°), and clearly averted gaze (10°), we revealed that brain response to gaze at the edge of the gaze cone was similar to that produced by eye contact and different from that produced by averted gaze. Right fusiform gyrus and right superior temporal sulcus showed stronger activation when the gaze was averted as compared to eye contact. Gaze sensitive areas, however, were not affected by the portrait's presentation location. In sum, although the brain clearly distinguishes averted from centered gaze, a substantial change of vantage point does not alter neural activity, thus providing a possible explanation why the feeling of eye contact is upheld even in decentered stimulus positions.
- Date of acceptance
- 2014
- Autoren
- Evgenia Boyarskaya
- Alexandra Sebastian
- Thomas Bauermann
- Heiko Hecht
- Oliver Tüscher
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25327821
- DOI
- 10.1002/hbm.22651
- eISSN
- 1097-0193
- Externe Identifier
- PubMed Central ID: PMC6869588
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 2
- Zeitschrift
- Hum Brain Mapp
- Schlüsselwörter
- Mona Lisa effect
- cone of gaze
- eye contact
- fusiform gyrus
- gaze perception
- superior temporal sulcus
- Adult
- Brain
- Brain Mapping
- Eye
- Female
- Fixation, Ocular
- Humans
- Judgment
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Male
- Neuropsychological Tests
- Photic Stimulation
- Portraits as Topic
- Visual Perception
- Young Adult
- Sprache
- eng
- Country
- United States
- Paginierung
- 619 - 632
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2015
- Status
- Published
- Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde
- 2015
- Titel
- The Mona Lisa effect: neural correlates of centered and off-centered gaze.
- Sub types
- Journal Article
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 36
Datenquelle: PubMed
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