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When East meets West: Gaze-contingent Blindspots abolish cultural diversity in eye movements for faces.

Miellet, S., Caldara, R., He, L., Zhou, X. and Lao, J., 2012. When East meets West: Gaze-contingent Blindspots abolish cultural diversity in eye movements for faces. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 5 (2), 1-12.

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Abstract

Culture impacts on how people sample visual information for face processing. Westerners deploy fixations towards the eyes and the mouth to achieve face recognition. In contrast, Easterners reach equal performance by deploying more central fixations, suggesting an effective extrafoveal information use. However, this hypothesis has not been yet directly investigated, i.e. by providing only extrafoveal information to both groups of observers. We used a parametric gaze-contingent technique dynamically masking central vision - the Blindspot - with Western and Eastern observers during face recognition. Westerners shifted progressively towards the typical Eastern central fixation pattern with larger Blindspots, whereas Easterners were insensitive to the Blindspots. These observations clearly show that Easterners preferentially sample information extrafoveally for faces. Conversely, the Western data also show that culturally-dependent visuo-motor strategies can flexibly adjust to constrained visual situations.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:1995-8692
Group:Faculty of Science & Technology
ID Code:22075
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:10 Jun 2015 10:31
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 13:51

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