Scene and screen center bias early eye movements in scene viewing

Scene and screen center bias early eye movements in scene viewing

In laboratory studies of visual perception, images of natural scenes are routinely presented on a computer screen. Under these conditions, observers look at the center of scenes first, which might reflect an advantageous viewing position for extracting visual information. This study examined an alternative possibility, namely that initial eye movements are drawn towards the center of the screen...

Linguistically guided anticipatory eye movements in scene viewing

Vanishing Point Attracts Eye Movements in Scene Free-viewing

Eye movements are crucial in understanding complex scenes. By predicting where humans look in natural scenes, we can understand how they percieve scenes and priotriaze information for further high-level processing. Here, we study the effect of a particular type of scene structural information known as vanishing point and show that human gaze is attracted to vanishing point regions. We then buil...

Classifying mental states from eye movements during scene viewing.

How eye movements reflect underlying cognitive processes during scene viewing has been a topic of considerable theoretical interest. In this study, we used eye-movement features and their distributions over time to successfully classify mental states as indexed by the behavioral task performed by participants. We recorded eye movements from 72 participants performing 3 scene-viewing tasks: visu...

Computational Modeling of Eye Movements – from Reading to Scene Viewing