1. Cued Recognition Task
Measuring the Temporal
Dynamics of Social Cue Processing
Buyun Xu, University of Victoria
James Tanaka, University of Victoria

2. How to Study Social Cue Processing
T
Time
Time
Valid Cueing:
Invalid Cueing:
F
SOA

4. Cue Selection

5. Cue Following

6. Object Recognition ? ?
?
?
?

8. Looking at you… Not looking at you…

9. Looking at you… Not looking at you…
Head Direction and Gaze Direction

11. F

12. Peripheral Onset Effect

13. DF H
Distractor

14. Three Modifications
• Head turns
• Cues not preselected
• Distractors

15. The Cued Recognition Task
•Task: Square or Circle?
•Target and Distractors
•On one hand: Target (Square or
Circle)
•The other hand: Distractor
(Triangle)
•Size: 6*6 degree
•Cue: Head-turn, not predictive

16. 600 or
1000ms
SOA
0 ms, 105 ms, 300ms,
600ms or 1005 ms
Until
Response
Valid
Invalid
“S” for Square
“C” for Circle
1000ms
Cued Recognition Task

17. Does distractors have effects?

18. 600 or
1000ms
0 ms, 105 ms, 300ms,
600ms or 1005 ms
Until
Response
“S”
“C”
1000ms
Non-DistractorDistractor
Valid
Invalid
Valid
Invalid

19. Non-Distractor, Valid, Short SOA

20. Distractor, Invalid, Long SOA

21. Distractor vs. Non-Distractor
450
500
550
600
650
0 105 300 600 1005
Valid
Invalid
450
500
550
600
650
Non-Distractor
Distractor
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Xu, Tanaka, Mineault, 2012

22. What’s Really Going on?

23. Eye Tracking
Circle
or
Square?
Cueing
Period
Recognition
Period
SOA RT

24. 105 ms

25. 300 ms

26. 600 ms

27. 1005 ms

28. AOI * SOA
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
105 300 600 1005
Face
Gazed
NotGazed
Middle

29. The 1005 ms of SOA
3 Fixations on average…

30. The 1st Fixation (n=6788)

31. The 2nd Fixation (n=2865)

32. The Rest (n=1225)

33. Ultimate Goal
Measure social cue processing of
children with Autism Spectrum
Disorder

34. Acknowledgments
Allison McGerrigle
iSLC, TDLC, PEN
CSC
Kristy Mineault

35. QUESTIONS?