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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Metacognition

Background:

  • Individual differences in visual gaze preferences are well-established and linked to cognitive and affective states.
  • Awareness of these personal gaze patterns remains largely unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether individuals are aware of and can accurately report their visual gaze preferences.
  • To explore the metacognitive insight into one's own visual attention patterns.

Main Methods:

  • Participants engaged in three distinct tasks.
  • At the conclusion of each task, participants estimated their gaze duration towards specific visual stimuli (e.g., faces, texts) without prior warning.

Main Results:

  • Findings indicate that participants demonstrated accurate self-reporting of their visual gaze preferences.
  • Metacognitive awareness of visual attention patterns was observed.

Conclusions:

  • Humans possess the ability to accurately report their visual gaze preferences.
  • This metacognitive capacity has significant implications for visual perception research and the creation of novel diagnostic tools utilizing eye-tracking technology.