Page No 127-130
Bhavani Shankara Bagepally
National Institute of Occupatioal Health, Bangalore
Eye tracking is the process of measuring either the point of gaze or the motion of an
eye relative to the head. Cognitive neurosciences has emphasized the importance of
eye movements in carrying crucial information about emotional states of others. As face
perception is a basic process in interpersonal communication. The facial gaze pattern
of human face experiment was performed. Twenty-two subjects, all right handed, aged
25.5 ± 5.4 yrs (females =16), from visiting graduate students to NIOH and staff of NIOH
were recruited. On eye tracking experiment with spontaneous gazing of neutral face
photograph, majority of subjects gazed at upper half of face near bilateral eye region
of the face, on focus map analysis, gaze maps, as well as on heat map analysis. Study
revealed the pattern of human face perception and reiterated the results of earlier
western studies among young subjects from India.