Refixation behavior in naturalistic viewing : Methods, mechanisms, and neural correlates
Nikolaev, Andrey R. LU
; Meghanathan, Radha Nila
and van Leeuwen, Cees
(2024)
In Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
- Abstract
When freely viewing a scene, the eyes often return to previously visited locations. By tracking eye movements and coregistering eye movements and EEG, such refixations are shown to have multiple roles: repairing insufficient encoding from precursor fixations, supporting ongoing viewing by resampling relevant locations prioritized by precursor fixations, and aiding the construction of memory representations. All these functions of refixation behavior are understood to be underpinned by three oculomotor and cognitive systems and their associated brain structures. First, immediate saccade planning prior to refixations involves attentional selection of candidate locations to revisit. This process is likely supported by the dorsal... (More)
When freely viewing a scene, the eyes often return to previously visited locations. By tracking eye movements and coregistering eye movements and EEG, such refixations are shown to have multiple roles: repairing insufficient encoding from precursor fixations, supporting ongoing viewing by resampling relevant locations prioritized by precursor fixations, and aiding the construction of memory representations. All these functions of refixation behavior are understood to be underpinned by three oculomotor and cognitive systems and their associated brain structures. First, immediate saccade planning prior to refixations involves attentional selection of candidate locations to revisit. This process is likely supported by the dorsal attentional network. Second, visual working memory, involved in maintaining task-related information, is likely supported by the visual cortex. Third, higher-order relevance of scene locations, which depends on general knowledge and understanding of scene meaning, is likely supported by the hippocampal memory system. Working together, these structures bring about viewing behavior that balances exploring previously unvisited areas of a scene with exploiting visited areas through refixations.
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- author
- Nikolaev, Andrey R.
LU
; Meghanathan, Radha Nila
and van Leeuwen, Cees
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-01-02
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- epub
- subject
- keywords
- Attention, Eye movements, Gaze returns, Memory, Neural activity, Visual perception
- in
- Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
- publisher
- Springer
- external identifiers
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- pmid:38169029
- scopus:85181214291
- ISSN
- 1943-3921
- DOI
- 10.3758/s13414-023-02836-9
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Funding Information: A.R.N. was supported by a grant (MAW2022.0048) awarded to him by the Marcus and Amelia Wallenberg Foundation and by a grant (2022-02409) from the Swedish Research Council to Roger Johansson. R.N.M. was supported by a German Research Foundation (DFG) grant to Stefan Pollmann. C.v.L. was supported by an Odysseus grant (G.0003.12.) awarded by the Flemish Research Council (FWO). Publisher Copyright: © 2024, The Author(s).
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- 2024-01-08 16:39:06
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