Prior knowledge about events depicted in scenes decreases oculomotor exploration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21306293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marek A Pedziwiatr (0000-0002-3959-8666, Queen Mary University of London, corresponding author), Sophie Heer (Queen Mary University of London), Antoine Coutrot (0000-0001-9569-3548, Lyon 1 Université), Peter Bex, Peter J Bex (0000-0001-7561-7695, Northeastern University), Isabelle Mareschal (0000-0003-4378-600X, Queen Mary University of London) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 238 |
| Pages | 105544 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cognition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-0277 • E-ISSN: 1873-7838 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105544 |
| PMID | 37419068 |
| OpenAlex | W4383213607 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 55 |
The visual input that the eyes receive usually contains temporally continuous information about unfolding events. Therefore, humans can accumulate knowledge about their current environment. Typical studies on scene perception, however, involve presenting multiple unrelated images and thereby render this accumulation unnecessary. Our study, instead, facilitated it and explored its effects. Specifically, we investigated how recently-accumulated prior knowledge affects gaze behavior. Participants viewed sequences of static film frames that contained several 'context frames' followed by a 'critical frame'. The context frames showed either events from which the situation depicted in the critical frame naturally followed, or events unrelated to this situation. Therefore, participants viewed identical critical frames while possessing prior knowledge that was either relevant or irrelevant to the frames' content. In the former case, participants' gaze behavior was slightly more exploratory, as revealed by seven gaze characteristics we analyzed. This result demonstrates that recently-gained prior knowledge reduces exploratory eye movements
Cognitive psychology · Context (archaeology) · Eye movement · Frame (networking) · Gaze · Perception · Communication · Computer Science · Neuroscience · Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies · Psychology · Visual Attention and Saliency Detection · Visual perception and processing mechanisms
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |