Eye movement patterns in complex tasks: Characteristics of ambient and focal processing.

ABSTRACT: Analyzing the time course of eye movements during scene viewing often indicates that people progress through two distinct modes of visual processing: an ambient mode, which is associated with overall spatial orientation in a scene, followed by a focal mode, which requires central vision of an object. However, the shifts between ambient and focal processing modes have mainly been identified relative to changes in the environment, such as relative to the onset of various visual stimuli but also following scene cuts or subjective event boundaries in dynamic stimuli. The results so far do not allow conclusions about the nature of the two processing mechanisms beyond the influence of externally triggered events. It remains unclear whether people shift back and forth from ambient to focal proces

SUBMITTER: Guo Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9645626 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature