Individual differences in looking at persons in scenes.

ABSTRACT: Individuals freely viewing complex scenes vary in their fixation behavior. The most prominent and reliable dimension of such individual differences is the tendency to fixate faces. However, much less is known about how observers distribute fixations across other body parts of persons in scenes and how individuals may vary in this regard. Here, we aimed to close this gap. We expanded a popular annotated stimulus set (Xu, Jiang, Wang, Kankanhalli, & Zhao, 2014) with 6,365 hand-delineated pixel masks for the body parts of 1,136 persons embedded in 700 complex scenes, which we publish with this article (https://osf.io/ynujz/). This resource allowed us to analyze the person-directed fixations of 103 participants freely viewing these scenes. We found large and reliable individual differences in

SUBMITTER: Broda MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9652713 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature