Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0211353

Funded Activity Summary

Normal and abnormal processes of social attention orienting. Human beings are capable of rapidly detecting the direction of another person's eye-gaze and shifting attention reflexively in that direction. This project will compare shifts of attention to non-social and social cues of direction to determine whether attentional shifts to gaze-direction are fast because humans are biologically hard-wired to respond to social cues of evolutionary significance (eyes) or because humans are well-practiced at using a number of different signals for direction in their environment. Findings from this work will than be used to investigate whether a selective impairment of responding to gaze-direction contributes to the social impairments so characteristic of people with schizophrenia.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 15-01-2002

End Date: 14-01-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $60,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Psychiatry | Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology) | Psychology | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Clinical health not specific to particular organs, diseases and conditions | Mental health | Behavioural and cognitive sciences |

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology) | Clinical health not specific to particular organs, diseases and conditions | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Mental health | Psychiatry | Psychology

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