Gravitational effects of scene information in object localization.

ABSTRACT: We effortlessly interact with objects in our environment, but how do we know where something is? An object's apparent position does not simply correspond to its retinotopic location but is influenced by its surrounding context. In the natural environment, this context is highly complex, and little is known about how visual information in a scene influences the apparent location of the objects within it. We measured the influence of local image statistics (luminance, edges, object boundaries, and saliency) on the reported location of a brief target superimposed on images of natural scenes. For each image statistic, we calculated the difference between the image value at the physical center of the target and the value at its reported center, using observers' cursor responses, and averaged th

SUBMITTER: Kosovicheva A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8169838 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature