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The interplay between gaze and consistency in scene viewing: Evidence from visual search by young and older adults.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
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| Author | Fernandes, Eunice G. Phillips, Louise H. Slessor, Gillian Tatler, Benjamin W. |
| Abstract | Searching for an object in a complex scene is influenced by high-level factors such as how much the item would be expected in that setting (semantic consistency). There is also evidence that a person gazing at an object directs our attention towards it. However, there has been little previous research that has helped to understand how we integrate top-down cues such as semantic consistency and gaze to direct attention when searching for an object. Also, there are separate lines of evidence to suggest that older adults may be more influenced by semantic factors and less by gaze cues compared to younger counterparts, but this has not been investigated before in an integrated task. In the current study we analysed eye-movements of 34 younger and 30 older adults as they searched for a target object in complex visual scenes. Younger adults were influenced by semantic consistency in their attention to objects, but were more influenced by gaze cues. In contrast, older adults were more guided by semantic consistency in directing their attention, and showed less influence from gaze cues. These age differences in use of high-level cues were apparent early in processing (time to first fixation and probability of immediate fixation) but not in later processing (total time looking at objects and time to make a response). Overall, this pattern of findings indicates that people are influenced by both social cues and prior expectations when processing a complex scene, and the relative importance of these factors depends on age.Supplementary informationThe online version of this article (10.3758/s13414-021-02242-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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| ISSN | 19433921 |
| Journal | Attention, Perception & Psychophysics [Atten Percept Psychophys] |
| Volume Number | 83 |
| DOI | 10.3758/s13414-021-02242-z |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC8213592 |
| Issue Number | 5 |
| PubMed reference number | 33748905 |
| e-ISSN | 1943393X |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer US |
| Publisher Date | 2021-03-21 |
| Publisher Place | New York |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. © The Author(s) 2021 |
| Subject Keyword | Scene viewing Visual search Gaze following Semantic consistency Ageing |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Sensory Systems Linguistics and Language |
