注视线索效应的认知机制
Cognitive Mechanisms of the Gaze-Cueing Effect
DOI: 10.12677/ap.2026.162065, PDF,    科研立项经费支持
作者: 陈秋同：湖南师范大学教育科学学院心理学系，湖南 长沙
关键词: 注视线索效应；反射性注意定向；社会语境调节；证据累积模型；Gaze Cueing Effect； Reflexive Attentional Orienting； Social-Context Modulation； Evidence Accumulation Models
摘要: 近年来社会性注意研究快速发展，注视线索效应作为核心范式受到持续关注。现有证据表明，该效应并非单一过程的产物，而由反射性空间定向、社会语境与个体差异的顶层调节，以及决策加工成分共同决定。本文整合行为成分化测量与证据累积建模结果，概括三类机制的关键证据与边界条件，并提出通过SOA、线索预测性与社会学习的正交操纵，结合多模态指标与参数化检验，以提升机制判别力与生态效度。
Abstract: In recent years, research on social attention has advanced rapidly, with the gaze cueing effect receiving sustained interest as a core experimental paradigm. Accumulating evidence indicates that this effect does not arise from a single process; rather, it reflects the joint contributions of reflexive spatial orienting, top-down modulation by social context and individual differences, and decision-related processing components. This article synthesizes findings from component-based behavioral measures and evidence accumulation modeling, summarizes the key evidence and boundary conditions for these three mechanisms, and proposes that orthogonal manipulations of stimulus-onset asynchrony (SOA), cue predictiveness, and social learning—combined with multimodal indices and parameter-based tests—can further improve mechanistic discriminability and ecological validity.
文章引用：陈秋同 (2026). 注视线索效应的认知机制. 心理学进展, 16(2), 95-102. https://doi.org/10.12677/ap.2026.162065

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