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Peripheral scene context modulates task-driven saccades toward peripheral objects.

Eva Aprile1, Nathalie Guyader2, Louison Barbé1

  • 1Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LPNC, 38000 Grenoble, France.

Vision Research
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Peripheral scene context automatically guides eye movements, even when irrelevant. Congruent scenes with target objects trigger unintended saccades, demonstrating predictive processing in vision.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Peripheral vision aids object recognition through cognitive predictions during fixation.
  • Visual perception involves dynamic shifts between fixations and saccades.
  • The influence of peripheral context on gaze-based discrimination needs further exploration.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how predictions from peripheral scene context affect gaze-based discrimination of objects in peripheral vision.
  • To determine the impact of semantic congruence between scene and target category on saccade behavior.
  • To understand the interplay between scene context, object presence, and saccade generation.

Main Methods:

  • Three eye-tracking experiments were conducted.
Keywords:
Gaze orientationObject categorizationPredictive cognitive modelSaccadic taskScene perception

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  • Participants performed a gaze-based discrimination task involving peripheral objects and scenes.
  • Semantic congruence between scene context and target category was manipulated.

    • Main Results:

    • Scene context semantically congruent with the target category induced erroneous saccades toward distractor objects.
    • The congruence effect intensified when the scene preceded the object, suggesting predictive accumulation.
    • Erroneous saccades resulted from the combined influence of scene context and object presence, not scene context alone.

    Conclusions:

    • Peripheral scene context is automatically processed to form predictions influencing saccade behavior.
    • Task-irrelevant scene information can automatically trigger anticipatory eye movements toward expected objects.
    • This highlights the predictive nature of visual attention and action planning.