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Subjective report of eye fixations during serial search.

Authors :
Marti S
Bayet L
Dehaene S
Source :
Consciousness and cognition [Conscious Cogn] 2015 May; Vol. 33, pp. 1-15. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Dec 08.
Publication Year :
2015

Abstract

Humans readily introspect upon their thoughts and their behavior, but how reliable are these subjective reports? In the present study, we explored the consistencies of and differences between the observer's subjective report and actual behavior within a single trial. On each trial of a serial search task, we recorded eye movements and the participants' beliefs of where their eyes moved. The comparison of reported versus real eye movements revealed that subjects successfully reported a subset of their eye movements. Limits in subjective reports stemmed from both the number and the type of eye movements. Furthermore, subjects sometimes reported eye movements they actually never made. A detailed examination of these reports suggests that they could reflect covert shifts of attention during overt serial search. Our data provide quantitative and qualitative measures of observers' subjective reports and reveal experimental effects of visual search that would otherwise be inaccessible.<br /> (Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1090-2376
Volume :
33
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Consciousness and cognition
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
25497406
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2014.11.007