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Enhancing ecological validity of gaze-cueing stimuli is associated with increased gaze following for older but not younger adults.

Kate T. McKay · Sarah A. Grainger · Manikya Alister · Julie D. Henry

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Aging and Gerontology Research Child and Animal Learning Development Face Recognition and Perception

Abstract

= 68) completed a standard gaze-cueing task (static images) and a gaze-cueing task with enhanced ecological validity (videos of shifting gaze). In contrast to past research, both groups showed equivalent gaze following. Notably, in line with motivational model theorizing and experience-based accounts, ecological validity was associated with enhanced gaze following for older but not younger adults. These findings highlight the importance of considering stimulus ecological validity in social-cognitive aging research and provide information regarding the specific types of gaze cues that may be most effective in producing the cognitive and perceptual benefits associated with gaze cues for older adults. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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