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Initial scene representations facilitate eye movement guidance in visual search.
- Source :
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Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance [J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform] 2007 Aug; Vol. 33 (4), pp. 753-63. - Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- What role does the initial glimpse of a scene play in subsequent eye movement guidance? In 4 experiments, a brief scene preview was followed by object search through the scene via a small moving window that was tied to fixation position. Experiment 1 demonstrated that the scene preview resulted in more efficient eye movements compared with a control preview. Experiments 2 and 3 showed that this scene preview benefit was not due to the conceptual category of the scene or identification of the target object in the preview. Experiment 4 demonstrated that the scene preview benefit was unaffected by changing the size of the scene from preview to search. Taken together, the results suggest that an abstract (size invariant) visual representation is generated in an initial scene glimpse and that this representation can be retained in memory and used to guide subsequent eye movements.<br /> ((c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)
- Subjects :
- Humans
Reaction Time
Eye Movements
Fixation, Ocular
Visual Perception
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0096-1523
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 17683226
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.33.4.753