Emotional real-world scenes impact visual search

Gamification of Visual Search in Real World Scenes

How Chromaticity Guides Visual Search in Real-World Scenes

To study visual attention during search processes, numerous studies measured the selectivity of observers’ saccadic eye movements for local display features. These experiments almost entirely relied on simple, artificial displays with discrete search items and features. Recently, a first study on saccadic selectivity in real-world scenes was conducted, demonstrating visual guidance by low-level...

Visual Saliency Does Not Account for Eye Movements during Visual Search in Real-world Scenes

We tested the hypothesis that fixation locations during scene viewing are primarily determined by visual salience. Eye movements were collected from participants who viewed photographs of real-world scenes during an active search task. Visual salience as determined by a popular computational model did not predict region-to-region saccades or saccade sequences any better than did a random model....

Neural representations of contextual guidance in visual search of real-world scenes.

Exploiting scene context and object-object co-occurrence is critical in guiding eye movements and facilitating visual search, yet the mediating neural mechanisms are unknown. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging while observers searched for target objects in scenes and used multivariate pattern analyses (MVPA) to show that the lateral occipital complex (LOC) can predict the coarse spat...

The role of color in visual search in real-world scenes: evidence from contextual cuing.

Because the importance of color in visual tasks such as object identification and scene memory has been debated, we sought to determine whether color is used to guide visual search in contextual cuing with real-world scenes. In Experiment 1, participants searched for targets in repeated scenes that were shown in one of three conditions: natural colors, unnatural colors that remained consistent ...