Effects of vocal demands on pupil dilation.

Pupil dilation is known to be affected by a variety of factors, including physical (e.g., light) and cognitive sources of influence (e.

How ubiquitous is the direct-gaze advantage? Evidence for an averted-gaze advantage in a gaze-discrimination task.

Human eye gaze conveys an enormous amount of socially relevant information, and the rapid assessment of gaze direction is of particular relevance in order to adapt behavior accordingly. Specifically, previous research demonstrated evidence for an advantage of processing direct (vs. averted) gaze.

Gaze interaction: anticipation-based control of the gaze of others.

Gaze control is an important component of social communication, e.g. to direct someone's attention.

Revisiting intersubjective action-effect binding: No evidence for social moderators.

Effect-based accounts of human action control have recently highlighted the possibility of representing one's own actions in terms of anticipated changes in the behavior of social interaction partners. In contrast to action effects that pertain to the agent's body or the agent's physical environment, social action effects have been proposed to come with peculiarities inherent to their social nature. Here, we revisit the currently most prominent demonstration of such a peculiarity: the role of eye contact for action-effect learning in social contexts (Sato & Itakura, 2013, Cognition, 127, 383-390).

Correction to: Spatial legend compatibility within versus between graphs in multiple graph comprehension.

In the original article the authors' names were mistakenly included in the article title. The original article was corrected.

Spatial legend compatibility within versus between graphs in multiple graph comprehension.

Previous research has shown that spatial compatibility between the data region and the legend of a graph is beneficial for comprehension. However, in multiple graphs, data-legend compatibility can come at the cost of spatial between-graph legend incompatibility. Here we aimed at determining which type of compatibility is most important for performance: global (legend-legend) compatibility between graphs, or local (data-legend) compatibility within graphs.

Spatio-temporal dynamics of action-effect associations in oculomotor control.

While there is ample evidence that actions are guided by anticipating their effects (ideomotor control) in the manual domain, much less is known about the underlying characteristics and dynamics of effect-based oculomotor control. Here, we address three open issues. 1) Is action-effect anticipation in oculomotor control reflected in corresponding spatial saccade characteristics in inanimate environments? 2) Does the previously reported dependency of action latency on the temporal effect delay (action-effect interval) also occur in the oculomotor domain? 3) Which temporal effect delay is optimally suited to develop strong action-effect associations over time in the oculomotor domain? Participants executed left or right free-choice saccades to peripheral traffic lights, causing an (immediate or delayed) action-contingent light switch in the upper vs.