When do you look where you look? A visual field asymmetry

When do you look where you look? A visual field asymmetry

Pre-saccadic fixation durations associated with saccades directed in different directions were compared in three endogenous-attention oriented saccadic scanning tasks (i.e. visual search and scene viewing). Pre-saccadic fixation durations were consistently briefer before the execution of upward saccades, than downward saccades. Saccades also had a higher probability of being directed upwards th...

When You Have Nowhere to Look, You Look Where You Can.

Task and context determine where you look.

The deployment of human gaze has been almost exclusively studied independent of any specific ongoing task and limited to two-dimensional picture viewing. This contrasts with its use in everyday life, which mostly consists of purposeful tasks where gaze is crucially involved. To better understand deployment of gaze under such circumstances, we devised a series of experiments, in which subjects n...

Do you look where I look? Attention shifts and response preparation following dynamic social cues

Studies investigating the effects of observing a gaze shift in another person often apply static images of a person with an averted gaze, while measuring response times to a peripheral target. Static images, however, are unlike how we normally perceive gaze shifts of others. Moreover, response times might only reveal the effects of a cue on covert attention and might fail to uncover cueing effe...

Do you have to look where you go? Gaze behaviour during spatial decision making

In this paper we present an eye-tracking experiment investigating the relation of gaze behavior, spatial decision making and route learning strategies. In the training phase participants were passively transported along a route consisting of 18 intersections. Each intersection featured two landmarks, some of which were unique while others were non-unique. In the test phase participants were pre...