Why do we retrace our visual steps? Semantic and episodic memory in gaze reinstatement.

ABSTRACT: When we look at repeated scenes, we tend to visit similar regions each time-a phenomenon known as resampling Resampling has long been attributed to episodic memory, but the relationship between resampling and episodic memory has recently been found to be less consistent than assumed. A possibility that has yet to be fully considered is that factors unrelated to episodic memory may generate resampling: for example, other factors such as semantic memory and visual salience that are consistently present each time an image is viewed and are independent of specific prior viewing instances. We addressed this possibility by tracking participants' eyes during scene viewing to examine how semantic memory, indexed by the semantic informativeness of scene regions (i.e., meaning), is inv

SUBMITTER: Ramey MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7301753 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature