ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses three issues concerning the brain basis of eye gaze processing in adults. First, which regions of the brain are activated by viewing the eyes of a person? Second, are these activated regions related to those involved in the perception of movement in general? Third, which of these regions are also activated during general face processing? The chapter focuses on behavioral and neural evidence pertaining to two different aspects of eye gaze processing: perceiving the direction of another's eye gaze and acting on another's eye gaze. It attempts to synthesize data on the development of eye gaze perception and speculate on their relation to the available neuroscience data. The empirical evidence we and others have gathered on the development and neural basis of eye gaze processing in infants is consistent with an "interactive specialization" perspective on functional brain development.
