School of Psychology, College of Life & Environmental Sciences, Washington Singer Laboratories, University of Exeter, Perry Road, Exeter, EX4 4QG, UK.
Department of Psychology and Centre for Brain Science, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2018 Oct;25(5):1585-1605. doi: 10.3758/s13423-017-1354-0.
Despite considerable interest in both action perception and social attention over the last 2 decades, there has been surprisingly little investigation concerning how the manual actions of other humans orient visual attention. The present review draws together studies that have measured the orienting of attention, following observation of another's goal-directed action. Our review proposes that, in line with the literature on eye gaze, action is a particularly strong orienting cue for the visual system. However, we additionally suggest that action may orient visual attention using mechanisms, which gaze direction does not (i.e., neural direct mapping and corepresentation). Finally, we review the implications of these gaze-independent mechanisms for the study of attention to action. We suggest that our understanding of attention to action may benefit from being studied in the context of joint action paradigms, where the role of higher level action goals and social factors can be investigated.
尽管过去 20 年来人们对动作感知和社会注意力都非常感兴趣，但对于他人的手部动作如何引导视觉注意力，却鲜有研究。本综述汇集了一些研究，这些研究测量了在观察到他人的目标导向动作后，注意力的指向。我们的综述认为，与眼动注视的文献一致，动作是视觉系统的一个特别强的引导线索。然而，我们还提出，动作可能使用注视方向不具备的机制来引导视觉注意力（即神经直接映射和共同表象）。最后，我们综述了这些与注视无关的机制对视动注意研究的意义。我们认为，在联合动作范式的背景下研究视动注意，可能有助于我们理解注意的作用，因为在联合动作范式中，可以研究更高层次的动作目标和社会因素的作用。
