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The Eyes Have It: Perception of Social Interaction Unfolds Through Pupil Dilation

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31830037 and 31771211), the Scientific Foundation of the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y8CX372005), the Strategic Priority Research Program (XDB32010300), the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences (QYZDB-SSW-SMC030), Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Yuhui Cheng, Wenjie Liu, Xiangyong Yuan & Yi Jiang

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Yuhui Cheng, Wenjie Liu, Xiangyong Yuan & Yi Jiang

  3. Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing, 102206, China

    Yuhui Cheng, Wenjie Liu, Xiangyong Yuan & Yi Jiang

  4. Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei, 230088, China

    Yi Jiang

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Cheng, Y., Liu, W., Yuan, X. et al. The Eyes Have It: Perception of Social Interaction Unfolds Through Pupil Dilation. Neurosci. Bull. 37, 1595–1598 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-021-00739-z

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