Visual correlates of fixation selection: effects of scale and time

被引:549
作者
Tatler, BW
Baddeley, RJ
Gilchrist, ID
机构
[1] Univ Sussex, Sussex Ctr Neurosci, Sch Life Sci, Brighton BN1 9QG, E Sussex, England
[2] Univ Bristol, Dept Expt Psychol, Bristol BS8 1TN, Avon, England
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
关键词
saccadic selection; image features; spatial scale; time course; intermediate representation;
D O I
10.1016/j.visres.2004.09.017
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
What distinguishes the locations that we fixate from those that we do not? To answer this question we recorded eye movements while observers viewed natural scenes, and recorded image characteristics centred at the locations that observers fixated. To investigate potential differences in the visual characteristics of fixated versus non-fixated locations, these images were transformed to make intensity, contrast, colour, and edge content explicit. Signal detection and information theoretic techniques were then used to compare fixated regions to those that were not. The presence of contrast and edge information was more strongly discriminatory than luminance or chromaticity. Fixated locations tended to be more distinctive in the high spatial frequencies. Extremes of low frequency luminance information were avoided. With prolonged viewing, consistency in fixation locations between observers decreased. In contrast to [Parkhurst, D. J., Law, K., & Niebur, E. (2002). Modeling the role of salience in the allocation of overt visual attention. Vision Research, 42 (1), 107-123] we found no change in the involvement of image features over time. We attribute this difference in our results to a systematic bias in their metric. We propose that saccade target selection involves an unchanging intermediate level representation of the scene but that the high-level interpretation of this representation changes over time. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:643 / 659
页数:17
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