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

You might also read

Related Articles

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

Sort by
Same author

Retinotopic Spatial Working Memory Representations Are Not Affected by Task-irrelevant Visual Stimuli.

Journal of cognitive neuroscience·2025
Same author

Traveling waves link human visual and frontal cortex during working memory-guided behavior.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·2025
Same author

Temporally Dissociable Mechanisms of Spatial, Feature, and Motor Selection during Working Memory-guided Behavior.

Journal of cognitive neuroscience·2023
Same author

Retrospective cue benefits in visual working memory are limited to a single location at a time.

Attention, perception & psychophysics·2023
Same author

Categorical Biases in Human Occipitoparietal Cortex.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2019
Same author

Recovery of information from latent memory stores decreases over time.

Cognitive neuroscience·2019
Same journal

Sensorimotor Adaptation of Vocal Pitch Is Impaired in Cerebellar Ataxia.

Journal of cognitive neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Memory in the Palm of Your Hand: Smartphone-based Methods for Measuring Memory in the Wild.

Journal of cognitive neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Processing Asymmetry in Object-modifying Relative Clauses: Evidence from Functional Connectivity.

Journal of cognitive neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Extensive Experience Remodels Neural Task Circuitry to Escape the Frontal Bottleneck and Increase Automaticity of Categorization.

Journal of cognitive neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Investigating the Effects of Acute Stress on Neural Mechanisms of Self-controlled Decision-making.

Journal of cognitive neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Distilling the Neurophenomenological Signatures of Pure Awareness during Transcendental Meditation.

Journal of cognitive neuroscience·2026
See all related articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Mar 24, 2026

Combining Computer Game-Based Behavioural Experiments With High-Density EEG and Infrared Gaze Tracking
13:40

Combining Computer Game-Based Behavioural Experiments With High-Density EEG and Infrared Gaze Tracking

Published on: December 16, 2010

17.3K

Human Gaze Behaviors Track Abstract Stimulus Categories.

Ali Caron1, Edward F Ester1

  • 1University of Nevada.

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
|March 23, 2026
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Human eye movements reveal abstract cognitive categorization, similar to primates. Gaze patterns reflect learned categories, not just physical features, showing cognition influences our vision.

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

11.6K
Defining the Role Of Language in Infants' Object Categorization with Eye-tracking Paradigms
07:31

Defining the Role Of Language in Infants' Object Categorization with Eye-tracking Paradigms

Published on: February 8, 2019

7.4K

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Mar 24, 2026

Combining Computer Game-Based Behavioural Experiments With High-Density EEG and Infrared Gaze Tracking
13:40

Combining Computer Game-Based Behavioural Experiments With High-Density EEG and Infrared Gaze Tracking

Published on: December 16, 2010

17.3K
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

11.6K
Defining the Role Of Language in Infants' Object Categorization with Eye-tracking Paradigms
07:31

Defining the Role Of Language in Infants' Object Categorization with Eye-tracking Paradigms

Published on: February 8, 2019

7.4K

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Oculomotor Research

Background:

  • Categorization is key to abstract cognition.
  • Primate studies show oculomotor areas encode category signals, influencing eye movements.
  • It's unknown if humans exhibit similar category-selective gaze behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if human gaze behavior encodes abstract categorical information.
  • To determine if eye movements reflect learned categories independent of stimulus features.
  • To explore the link between oculomotor behavior and abstract cognition in humans.

Main Methods:

  • Participants learned arbitrary classification rules for visual stimuli.
  • Eye movements were recorded during classification tasks.
  • Gaze position data was analyzed to decode category identity.
  • A delayed match-to-category task ruled out motor response confounds.

Main Results:

  • Category identity was reliably decoded from human gaze position data.
  • Category-selective gaze patterns emerged before motor responses.
  • Gaze patterns reflected both orientation and color categories, not just stimulus features.
  • Findings parallel nonhuman primate oculomotor category encoding.

Conclusions:

  • Human oculomotor behavior carries abstract cognitive signals.
  • Gaze patterns reflect learned category distinctions, independent of physical attributes.
  • This supports a shared mechanism for category encoding in oculomotor networks across species.