Combined conceptual and perceptual control of visual attention in search for real-world objects.

ABSTRACT: When we search for an object in the natural visual environment, we sometimes know exactly what the object looks like. At other times, however, we know only the category of the object. For example, if we are looking for our own bath towel, we might know that it is brown and is folded into a rectangle. However, if we are looking for a towel in a friend's house, we might not know its color or whether it is folded or lying in a clump. Consequently, we may sometimes be able to use specific perceptual features to guide search, but some search tasks are so conceptual in nature that the relevant visual features are difficult to specify. Here, we found that eye-movement patterns during visual search could be predicted by perceptual dimensions derived from crowd-sourced data (THINGS), but only when

SUBMITTER: Bahle B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12864220 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature