The importance of peripheral vision when searching 3D real-world scenes: A gaze-contingent study in virtual reality.

ABSTRACT: Visual search in natural scenes is a complex task relying on peripheral vision to detect potential targets and central vision to verify them. The segregation of the visual fields has been particularly established by on-screen experiments. We conducted a gaze-contingent experiment in virtual reality in order to test how the perceived roles of central and peripheral visions translated to more natural settings. The use of everyday scenes in virtual reality allowed us to study visual attention by implementing a fairly ecological protocol that cannot be implemented in the real world. Central or peripheral vision was masked during visual search, with target objects selected according to scene semantic rules. Analyzing the resulting search behavior, we found that target objects that were not spat

SUBMITTER: David EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8287039 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature