Own Name Condition Analysis

In this article, the researchers studies the effect that an auditory signal has on one’s perception of another individual’s eye gaze. The researchers talk about how people are born with the ability to differentiate between direct and adverted gaze, and this ability becomes increasingly important throughout adulthood. Another important social signal has to do with a person’s auditory system. In infancy, children become sensitive to hearing their own name and to being spoken to in a slow, deliberate manner. Theses auditory signals often occur at the same time as direct eye contact. The researchers in this study are trying to determine if there is, and how strong of, a correlation there is between hearing your own name and your perception …show more content…
They called this ranges the “cone-of-gaze” values. They used a repeated measures analysis of variance to discover that there was a significant effect regarding the different two conditions. The own-name condition analysis showed a wider cone of gaze. The F-test for the two conditions equaled 4.61, with a p value of less than .05. The average for that conditions was 7.5 pixels with a standard error of 0.47. The average for the other-name condition was 6.8 pixels, with a standard error of 0.41. Although there was a greater difference between the rightward deviations for the two conditions than the leftward deviations, it was not significant according to the t-test (t(16)= -1.03, p=.32, two-tailed. The researchers then went on to discount the notion that the participants showed a bias to label gaze as direct when they heard their name. They used a 2 X 4 ANOVA with the two conditions and four gaze deviations to conclude …show more content…
The results show that there is a connection between the auditory and visual modalities. In this particular case, the researchers showed that calling a person’s name has an influence on how that perceive perceives the speaker’s gaze. The overall conclusion was that when the condition of calling the participants name was used, the participants reported to see a direct gaze for a larger range of gaze deviations, compared to when they heard a control name. This effect was seen the most clearly at the gaze deviation of 4 pixels, rather than 7 or 10. This deviation was the closest related to direct gaze, and these results support the claim that facial expression has a greater influence on how people perceive gaze when it is difficult to discriminate. There is also a reciprocal effect. This shows that when the desired signal is difficult to determine (gaze), a signal from a different modality (hearing one’s name) has a greater influence overall. Then, the researcher suggests the possibility of examine the opposite conditions, namely, how an unclear auditory signal (muffled name) would be influenced by clear, direct