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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception
  • Psychophysiology

Background:

  • Humans engage in extensive spontaneous visual content consumption.
  • Mechanisms governing self-paced perceptual behavior duration are poorly understood.
  • Understanding these mechanisms is crucial for explaining naturalistic visual engagement.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate neural and psychophysiological correlates of spontaneous image viewing duration.
  • Identify factors predicting individual variability in perceptual behavior.
  • Determine the role of early neural processing in sustained visual engagement.

Main Methods:

  • Electroencephalography (EEG) and pupillometry recordings during task-free image viewing.
  • Analysis of event-related potentials (ERPs), baseline power, and pupil responses.
  • Assessment of neural activity stability and its correlation with viewing duration.

Main Results:

  • Significant inter- and intra-individual variability in spontaneous viewing duration observed.
  • Viewing duration correlated with sustained posterior positivity and anterior negativity in ERPs.
  • Early neural stability (from 350 ms) strongly predicted spontaneous viewing duration.
  • Individual differences linked to evoked EEG amplitudes and pupil size changes.

Conclusions:

  • Individual-specific factors, particularly early neural stability, significantly influence spontaneous visual engagement.
  • Image content and category predictions did not consistently affect viewing duration.
  • Early neural processing plays a critical role in the dynamics of self-paced perceptual behavior.