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Eye Tracking During Visually Situated Language Comprehension: Flexibility and Limitations in Uncovering Visual Context Effects
Published on: November 30, 2018
If I saw it, it probably wasn't far from where I was looking
Eli Brenner1, Pascal Mamassian, Jeroen B J Smeets
1Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. e.brenner@fbw.vu.nl
Abstract:
People are most likely to see something if their gaze is directed at it. Thus if they saw something they may be biased towards believing that they had been looking at it. In order to examine whether this is so we asked participants where a target that jumped to a new position every 250 ms had been at a moment indicated by a flash or a tone. The jumping introduced uncertainty about where the target was at the indicated moment, giving room for biases to be expressed. Participants showed a clear preference to select positions that were nearer to where they were looking.
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