Eye movements and visual encoding during scene perception

Rayner, Keith, Smith, Tim J., Malcolm, George L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4892-5961 and Henderson, John M. (2009) Eye movements and visual encoding during scene perception. Psychological Science, 20 (1). pp. 6-10. ISSN 0956-7976

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Abstract

The amount of time viewers could process a scene during eye fixations was varied by a mask that appeared at a certain point in each eye fixation. The scene did not reappear until the viewer made an eye movement. The main finding in the studies was that in order to normally process a scene, viewers needed to see the scene for at least 150 ms during each eye fixation. This result is surprising because viewers can extract the gist of a scene from a brief 40- to 100-ms exposure. It also stands in marked contrast to reading, as readers need only to view the words in the text for 50 to 60 ms to read normally. Thus, although the same neural mechanisms control eye movements in scene perception and reading, the cognitive processes associated with each task drive processing in different ways.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: reading disappearing text,natural scenes,fixation,saccades,masking,search,foveal,span,gist
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Cognition, Action and Perception
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science
Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 05 Apr 2016 11:00
Last Modified: 28 Oct 2023 00:48
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/58117
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02243.x

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