Foulsham, Tom and Kingstone, Alan (2013) Optimal and Preferred Eye Landing Positions in Objects and Scenes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66 (9). pp. 1707-1728. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2012.762798
Foulsham, Tom and Kingstone, Alan (2013) Optimal and Preferred Eye Landing Positions in Objects and Scenes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66 (9). pp. 1707-1728. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2012.762798
Foulsham, Tom and Kingstone, Alan (2013) Optimal and Preferred Eye Landing Positions in Objects and Scenes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66 (9). pp. 1707-1728. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2012.762798
Abstract
Viewing position effects are commonly observed in reading, but they have only rarely been investigated in object perception or in the realistic context of a natural scene. In two experiments, we explored where people fixate within photorealistic objects and the effects of this landing position on recognition and subsequent eye movements. The results demonstrate an optimal viewing position?objects are processed more quickly when fixation is in the centre of the object. Viewers also prefer to saccade to the centre of objects within a natural scene, even when making a large saccade. A central landing position is associated with an increased likelihood of making a refixation, a result that differs from previous reports and suggests that multiple fixations within objects, within scenes, occur for a range of reasons. These results suggest that eye movements within scenes are systematic and are made with reference to an early parsing of the scene into constituent objects.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Scene perception; eye movements; attention; object recognition |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 15 May 2014 14:43 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 16:11 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/9324 |