2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Relathionship between individual differences in social cognition and eye-gaze and brain activity
| Project/Area Number |
26380840
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Social psychology
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| Research Institution | Chiba University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 社会的認知 / 認知スタイル / 視点取り / 視線運動 / 視線 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We investigated the relationship between the individual difference in the ability of perspective taking, which is a major aspect of social cognition, and one's eye-gaze movements. The participants in two cognitive styles (type E: Empathizer and type S: Systemizer), based on the E-S theory, were compared. The results showed that the participants in type E tended to move their eye-gaze frequently in the condition of the task which human was placed on the view point compared with the task which non-human object was placed on the view point, while no such difference was found in the participants in the S. Those results suggest that cognitive styles affect individual's eye-gaze movement in the perspective taking tasks, meaning that some relationships exist between cognitive styles, which supposed to be result from prenatal biochemical condition, and social cognitive processing.
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| Free Research Field |
心理学，認知神経科学
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