Studying eye movements produced whilst making visual decisions

Eye Movements Disclose Decisions in Set

During the past several decades, much research has been done in the field of visual attention and cognitive processing, i.e., how does the human brain process visual stimuli. We show that the card game SET is a good candidate for investigating the relation between top-down versus bottom-up visual information processing. Further, we show that Machine Learning techniques can be effectively used t...

Eye movements reset visual perception.

Human vision uses saccadic eye movements to rapidly shift the sensitive foveal portion of our retina to objects of interest. For vision to function properly amidst these ballistic eye movements, a mechanism is needed to extract discrete percepts on each fixation from the continuous stream of neural activity that spans fixations. The speed of visual parsing is crucial because human behaviors ran...

Eye movements in search in visual neglect

Optimizing Visual Motion Perception during Eye Movements

We usually perceive a stationary, stable world and we are able to correctly estimate the direction of heading from optic flow despite coherent visual motion induced by eye movements. This astonishing example of perceptual invariance results from a comparison of visual information with internal reference signals predicting the visual consequences of an eye movement. Here we demonstrate that the ...

Eye movements during parallel-serial visual search.

Two experiments (one using O and Q-like stimuli and the other using colored-oriented bars) investigated the oculomotor behavior accompanying parallel-serial visual search. Eye movements were recorded as participants searched for a target in 5- or 17-item displays. Results indicated the presence of parallel-serial search dichotomies and 2:1 ratios of negative to positive slopes in the number of ...