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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Computational Vision

Background:

  • Scene perception involves complex eye movement sequences (fixations).
  • Fixation locations are influenced by bottom-up (e.g., contrast) and top-down (e.g., instructions) factors, plus central bias.
  • Scanpath dynamics following manipulated initial fixations are not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how initial fixation position affects subsequent eye-movement behavior.
  • To explore mechanisms underlying scanpath dynamics after manipulated starting points.

Main Methods:

  • Presented participants with 64 images, controlling initial fixation positions (left/right).
  • Used computational models to predict fixation locations and classify images (balanced, left/right conspicuity).
  • Employed numerical simulations of statistical and dynamical models to test mechanisms.

Main Results:

  • Initial fixation position significantly influenced viewing behavior for several seconds.
  • A tendency to "overshoot" to the image side opposite the starting position was observed.
  • Model comparisons indicated inhibitory tagging as a plausible mechanism for scanpath planning.

Conclusions:

  • Initial fixation location plays a crucial role in shaping scanpath trajectories.
  • Inhibitory tagging offers a viable explanation for the dynamic planning of eye movements in scene perception.