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  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Interpreting complex visual scenes necessitates integrating information from multiple spatial locations.
  • Understanding the strategies underlying human visual exploration is crucial for cognitive and computational models.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the active sensing strategies employed during visual scene interpretation.
  • To quantify the efficiency of human eye movement selection in information acquisition for categorization tasks.

Main Methods:

  • A novel gaze-contingent paradigm was implemented within a visual categorization task.
  • Participants' scan paths were analyzed to identify active sensing strategies.
  • An optimal Bayesian active sensor algorithm was used to model and compare human performance.

Main Results:

  • Human scan paths demonstrated an active sensing strategy, integrating acquired information and statistical scene knowledge.
  • Categorization performance significantly improved when locations were guided by an optimal Bayesian active sensor algorithm.
  • The efficiency of selecting fixation locations was estimated at approximately 70%, accounting for biases, noise, and inaccuracies.

Conclusions:

  • Human eye movements in visual categorization tasks are goal-directed, aiming to maximize information gain from multiple locations.
  • Deviations from optimal performance are attributable to factors like prior biases, perceptual noise, and motor inaccuracies.
  • The findings support a Bayesian framework for understanding active visual information processing.