Gaze-contingent reinforcement learning reveals incentive value of social signals in young children and adults
Vernetti A, Smith TJ, Senju A. Gaze-contingent reinforcement learning reveals incentive value of social signals in young children and adults. Proceedings Of The Royal Society B 2017, 284: 20162747. PMID: 28250186, PMCID: PMC5360925, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2747.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdultAttentionChildCuesFixation, OcularHumansMotivationReaction TimeReinforcement, SocialRewardSocial BehaviorConceptsCue-reward associationsReward-predictive cuesSocial orientingVisual attentionSocial cuesReward deliveryVisual cuesIncentive valuePositive incentive valueParticipants' visual attentionReinforcement learningVisual orientingPreferential orientingSocial stimuliRewarding outcomesSocial signalsOrientingCuesPositive outcomesYoung childrenSpontaneous indicationsLearningChildrenAdultsReal life