Miellet, S., Zhou, X., He, L., Rodger, H. and Caldara, R., 2010. Investigating cultural diversity for extrafoveal information use in visual scenes. Journal of Vision, 10 (6), 1-21.
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DOI: 10.1167/10.6.21
Abstract
Culture shapes how people gather information from the visual world. We recently showed that Western observers focus on the eyes region during face recognition, whereas Eastern observers fixate predominantly the center of faces, suggesting a more effective use of extrafoveal information for Easterners compared to Westerners. However, the cultural variation in eye movements during scene perception is a highly debated topic. Additionally, the extent to which those perceptual differences across observers from different cultures rely on modulations of extrafoveal information use remains to be clarified. We used a gaze-contingent technique designed to dynamically mask central vision, the Blindspot, during a visual search task of animals in natural scenes. We parametrically controlled the Blindspots and target animal sizes (0°, 2°, 5°, or 8°). We processed eye-tracking data using an unbiased data-driven approach based on fixation maps and we introduced novel spatiotemporal analyses in order to finely characterize the dynamics of scene exploration. Both groups of observers, Eastern and Western, showed comparable animal identification performance, which decreased as a function of the Blindspot sizes. Importantly, dynamic analysis of the exploration pathways revealed identical oculomotor strategies for both groups of observers during animal search in scenes. Culture does not impact extrafoveal information use during the ecologically valid visual search of animals in natural scenes.
Item Type: | Article |
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ISSN: | 1534-7362 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Adult ; Cultural Diversity ; Discrimination (Psychology) ; Eye Movements ; Face ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Pattern Recognition, Visual |
Group: | Faculty of Science & Technology |
ID Code: | 22090 |
Deposited By: | Symplectic RT2 |
Deposited On: | 12 Jun 2015 10:12 |
Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2022 13:51 |
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