Fig. 1.

Illustration of the trial procedure (chequered pattern inspired by Harkin et al., 2011). Adopting the parameters of the traditional central cueing paradigm, the cue remained on screen for the entire trial (e.g. Friesen and Kingstone, 1998; Driver et al., 1999). Panel A shows the social avatar cue, and Panel B shows the non-social stick cue. Timings, as shown in the figure, were matched across cue types. Note that the inter-trial interval was 1000 ms during which a fixation cross was presented. The experiment was a free viewing experiment; thus, participants could move their eyes as they wished. Panel C shows the six possible left and right locations for the four encoding targets.