Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University Princeton, NJ, USA.
Front Integr Neurosci. 2010 Mar 19;4:5. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2010.00005. eCollection 2010.
In general, individuals look where they attend and next intend to act. Many animals, including our own species, use observed gaze as a deictic ("pointing") cue to guide behavior. Among humans, these responses are reflexive and pervasive: they arise within a fraction of a second, act independently of task relevance, and appear to undergird our initial development of language and theory of mind. Human and nonhuman animals appear to share basic gaze-following behaviors, suggesting the foundations of human social cognition may also be present in nonhuman brains.
一般来说，个体看向他们所在的位置，并打算在那里行动。许多动物，包括我们人类自身的物种，都会将观察到的注视作为一种指示（“指向”）线索来引导行为。在人类中，这些反应是反射性的和普遍存在的：它们在几分之一秒内产生，独立于任务相关性，并且似乎为我们语言和心理理论的最初发展提供了基础。人类和非人类动物似乎都具有基本的跟随目光的行为，这表明人类社会认知的基础也可能存在于非人类的大脑中。
