Social cues

…how individuals perceive and interpret social cues, often imbuing interactions with negative connotations. These biases can lead people to interpret harmless actions as threatening or hostile, fostering a climate of suspicion and discord in social interactions. There exist numerous methodologies dedicated to the examination and analysis of this particular behavioral phenomenon, which is why this research was conducted. This study is a battery of assessments of psychological methods formulated to measure an individual's tendenc

In social species, signals from conspecifics can help interpret ambiguous sensory information crucial for survival, such as locating food sources or detecting predators. To investigate the influence of conspecific cues on goal-directed decision-making, we devised a two-alternative forced-choice task for pairs of freely moving mice positioned facing each other. Water-restricted mice were trained to discriminate between visual stimuli indicating the location of a water reward. To evaluate their reliance on conspecific cues under conditions of uncertainty, we positioned the reward on the same sid

…is essential for robots to become more socialized via processing multiple social cues in a complex real-world environment. Thus, social cues integration and crossmodal conflict resolution are crucial for humanoid robots to implement social interaction. I will present a series of studies to explore the following questions: 1) how human participa