Social attention with Real vs. Reel stimuli: Toward an empirical approach to concerns about ecological validity

Cognitive neuroscientists often study social cognition by using simple but socially relevant stimuli, such as schematic faces or images of other people. Whilst this research is valuable, important aspects of genuine social encounters are absent from these studies, a fact that has recently drawn crit...

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Main Authors: Evan F Risko, Kaitlin E. Laidlaw, Megan eFreeth, Tom eFoulsham, Alan eKingstone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00143/full