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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Visual Perception

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  • Complex visual stimuli elicit varied gaze patterns across individuals.
  • Prior research indicates shared neural representations for visual stimuli.
  • Understanding individual differences in visual processing is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how individual eye movements influence neural representations of visual stimuli.
  • To determine if gaze patterns contribute to representational divergence across observers.
  • To link specific gaze characteristics to neural divergence in visual cortex.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized hyperalignment to compare visual cortical responses between observers.
  • Analyzed pairwise differences in spatial gaze distribution.
  • Assessed semantic salience of visual stimuli.
  • Correlated gaze and salience metrics with representational divergence in V1 and IT cortex.

Main Results:

  • Individual eye movements enhance cortical visual responses.
  • Gaze patterns lead to representational divergence in neural activity.
  • Spatial gaze distribution differences predict divergence in V1.
  • Semantic salience differences predict divergence in inferior temporal cortex.

Conclusions:

  • Individual gaze significantly sculpts unique visual worlds.
  • Neural representations are not entirely uniform despite shared stimuli.
  • Eye movements play a critical role in individualizing visual perception.