{"pk":50237,"title":"Context-dependency in marmoset gaze-following","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Gaze-following, the ability to direct one's attention to the target of another individual's gaze, plays a key role in social interactions. Gaze-following has been considered reflexive, implying it might operate invariant to context. We tracked the eye position of head-fixed marmosets as they viewed naturalistic video stimuli featuring a marmoset gazing toward (i.e., cueing) one of two transparent boxes. Three trial types were presented interleaved: in the first, a second marmoset entered the cued box; in the second, no marmoset entered either box; and in the third, both boxes were occluded, creating a non-informative context. In all three conditions, a significantly larger number of initial saccades landed in the cued region than in the un-cued region (p < 0.001) confirming gaze-following effects. However, preliminary analysis of other eye movements revealed different gazing patterns across conditions, indicating the potential context-dependent nature of gaze-following influenced by the availability of relevant information.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Animal cognition; Decision making; Perception; Social cognition; Eye tracking"}],"section":"Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0wp8f4m0","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Oviya","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mohan","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Rochester","department":""},{"first_name":"Jude","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mitchell","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Rochester","department":""},{"first_name":"Dora","middle_name":"","last_name":"Biro","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Rochester","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50237/galley/38199/download/"}]}