Attention AND mentalizing? Reframing a debate on social orienting of attention

• Published in: Visual cognition Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 97 - 105
• Main Authors: Capozzi, Francesca, Ristic, Jelena
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hove Routledge 07.02.2020; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: directional cues; gaze following; Orientation behavior; perspective taking; Social attention; submentalizing

People spontaneously attend where others are looking. Recently, it has been debated whether such orienting behaviour is supported by domain-general attentional processes, that involve reading the cues' directional properties, or by processes that involve attributing mental states to agents. In...