title: The neural basis of eye gaze processing.
abstract: Humans are highly sensitive to another's gaze direction, and use this information to support a range of social cognitive functions. Here we review recent studies that have begun to delineate a neural system for gaze perception. We focus in particular on a set of core gaze processes: perceptual coding of another's eye gaze direction, which may involve anterior superior temporal sulcus (STS); gaze-cued attentional orienting, which may be mediated by lateral parietal regions; and the experience of joint attention with another individual, which recruits medial prefrontal cortex. We conclude that understanding this gaze processing system will require a combination of multivariate pattern analysis approaches to characterise the role of individual nodes as well as connectivity-based methods to study interactions at the systems level.
authors.affiliation: Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF, UK. johan.carlin@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: Johan D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Carlin
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Calder
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology; D012919:Social Behavior