Gaze Cueing experiment

Sensitivity to gaze direction is taken as a marker of social competence. In the Social Gaze Task, children see a face with direct gaze, followed by an eye gaze shift to one side, followed by a small object (target) that appears on the cued side or the opposite side.

Eye movements are recorded using a Tobii TX300 eye tracker at 300 Hz frequency. The dependent variable is the latency with which the child detects the target. Generally, people detect targets on the cued side faster than targets on the opposite side.