Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Concept Videos

Association Areas of the Cortex01:21

Association Areas of the Cortex

5.3K
Association areas are regions of the cerebral cortex that do not have a specific sensory or motor function. Instead, they integrate and interpret information from various sources to enable higher cognitive processes such as memory, learning, and decision-making. Some key association areas include the following:
Prefrontal Association Area: This area is located in the frontal lobe and is involved in planning, decision-making, and moderating social behavior. It connects with primary motor areas,...
5.3K
Case Studies01:22

Case Studies

11.7K
There are many research methods available to psychologists in their efforts to understand, describe, and explain behavior and the cognitive and biological processes that underlie it.
11.7K
Prosopagnosia01:24

Prosopagnosia

165
Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, is the inability to recognize faces. In severe cases, individuals with prosopagnosia may not recognize close family members, including parents and spouses, by their faces. For instance, someone with prosopagnosia might walk past their child in a crowd, only realizing their mistake upon noticing their child's distinctive backpack or favorite jacket. Prosopagnosia specifically impairs facial recognition, while the recognition of other objects or...
165
Naturalistic Observations02:30

Naturalistic Observations

15.4K
If you want to understand how behavior occurs, one of the best ways to gain information is to simply observe the behavior in its natural context. However, people might change their behavior in unexpected ways if they know they are being observed. How do researchers obtain accurate information when people tend to hide their natural behavior? As an example, imagine that your professor asks everyone in your class to raise their hand if they always wash their hands after using the restroom. Chances...
15.4K
Fundamental Attribution Error01:14

Fundamental Attribution Error

12.9K
According to some social psychologists, people tend to overemphasize internal factors as explanations—or attributions—for the behavior of other people. They tend to assume that the behavior of another person is a trait of that person, and to underestimate the power of the situation on the behavior of others. They tend to fail to recognize when the behavior of another is due to situational variables, and thus to the person’s state. This erroneous assumption is...
12.9K
Attribution Theory00:56

Attribution Theory

13.0K
Behavior is a product of both the situation (e.g., cultural influences, social roles, and the presence of bystanders) and of the person (e.g., personality characteristics). Subfields of psychology tend to focus on one influence or behavior over others. Situationism is the view that our behavior and actions are determined by our immediate environment and surroundings. In contrast, dispositionism holds that our behavior is determined by internal factors (Heider, 1958).
13.0K

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Where You Look Is What You Get: Individual Fixation Height Predicts Biases in Face Perception.

Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science·2026
Same author

Individual gaze shapes diverging neural representations.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·2024
Same author

Estimating the human bottleneck for contact tracing.

PNAS nexus·2024
Same author

Reading the mind in the nose.

i-Perception·2023
Same author

Individual fixation tendencies in person viewing generalize from images to videos.

i-Perception·2022
Same author

Inferior Occipital Gyrus Is Organized along Common Gradients of Spatial and Face-Part Selectivity.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2021
Same journal

Tau protein as a regulator of mitochondrial function and dynamics.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·2026
Same journal

A scalable, dividing cell model for the robust propagation and quantification of human sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease prions.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·2026
Same journal

Epigenetic regulation of mesenchymal BMP signaling directs postnatal organ innervation.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·2026
Same journal

Single-shot wide-field biochemical imaging at 1 kHz frame rate.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·2026
Same journal

Morphogenesis and topological evolution of a frustrated nematic liquid crystal under confinement.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·2026
Same journal

B cell-intrinsic CXCR3 drives efficient generation of ectopic pulmonary germinal center responses to influenza A virus infection.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·2026
See all related articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Jul 1, 2025

Eye Tracking During Visually Situated Language Comprehension: Flexibility and Limitations in Uncovering Visual Context Effects
07:36

Eye Tracking During Visually Situated Language Comprehension: Flexibility and Limitations in Uncovering Visual Context Effects

Published on: November 30, 2018

15.7K

Individual differences in human gaze behavior generalize from faces to objects.

Maximilian Davide Broda1,2, Benjamin de Haas1,2

  • 1Experimental Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen 35394, Germany.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|March 12, 2024
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Individual differences in face fixation are not unique to faces. These biases also apply to objects, suggesting domain-general visual mechanisms influence how we look at faces and objects.

Keywords:
domain-generalfacegazeindividual differencesobject

More Related Videos

Gaze in Action: Head-mounted Eye Tracking of Children's Dynamic Visual Attention During Naturalistic Behavior
07:09

Gaze in Action: Head-mounted Eye Tracking of Children's Dynamic Visual Attention During Naturalistic Behavior

Published on: November 14, 2018

10.6K
Exploring Infant Sensitivity to Visual Language using Eye Tracking and the Preferential Looking Paradigm
06:07

Exploring Infant Sensitivity to Visual Language using Eye Tracking and the Preferential Looking Paradigm

Published on: May 15, 2019

8.4K

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Jul 1, 2025

Eye Tracking During Visually Situated Language Comprehension: Flexibility and Limitations in Uncovering Visual Context Effects
07:36

Eye Tracking During Visually Situated Language Comprehension: Flexibility and Limitations in Uncovering Visual Context Effects

Published on: November 30, 2018

15.7K
Gaze in Action: Head-mounted Eye Tracking of Children's Dynamic Visual Attention During Naturalistic Behavior
07:09

Gaze in Action: Head-mounted Eye Tracking of Children's Dynamic Visual Attention During Naturalistic Behavior

Published on: November 14, 2018

10.6K
Exploring Infant Sensitivity to Visual Language using Eye Tracking and the Preferential Looking Paradigm
06:07

Exploring Infant Sensitivity to Visual Language using Eye Tracking and the Preferential Looking Paradigm

Published on: May 15, 2019

8.4K

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception
  • Social Cognition

Background:

  • Individual differences in facial fixation patterns exist and are stable.
  • These biases are linked to social cognition and related disorders.
  • It remains unclear if these biases are face-specific or influenced by general vision mechanisms.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether individual face fixation biases extend to inanimate objects.
  • To determine if domain-general mechanisms contribute to individual differences in face viewing.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of over 1.8 million fixations on faces and objects in natural scenes.
  • Study involved 405 participants across multiple laboratory settings.
  • Compared fixation patterns between faces and inanimate objects.

Main Results:

  • Consistent interindividual differences in fixation positions were found across both faces and objects.
  • Fixation patterns for faces (e.g., eyes vs. mouth) correlated with fixation patterns for objects (e.g., higher vs. lower).
  • The scaling of fixation spread with target size was similar for faces and objects.

Conclusions:

  • Findings challenge the idea that face fixation biases are purely domain-specific.
  • Results suggest significant domain-general visual mechanisms influence individual face viewing habits.
  • Implications for understanding basic vision, face perception, social cognition, and clinical conditions are discussed.