Mackay, Michael and Cerf, Moran and Koch, Christof (2012) Evidence for two distinct mechanisms directing gaze in natural scenes. Journal of Vision, 12 (4). p. 9. ISSN 1534-7362. doi:10.1167/12.4.9. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20120605-104655889
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Abstract
Various models have been proposed to explain the interplay between bottom-up and top-down mechanisms in driving saccades rapidly to one or a few isolated targets. We investigate this relationship using eye-tracking data from subjects viewing natural scenes to test attentional allocation to high-level objects within a mathematical decision-making framework. We show the existence of two distinct types of bottom-up saliency to objects within a visual scene, which disappear within a few fixations, and modification of this saliency by top-down influences. Our analysis reveals a subpopulation of early saccades, which are capable of accurately fixating salient targets after prior fixation within the same image. These data can be described quantitatively in terms of bottom-up saliency, including an explicit face channel, weighted by top-down influences, determining the mean rate of rise of a decision-making model to a threshold that triggers a saccade. These results are compatible with a rapid subcortical pathway generating accurate saccades to salient targets after analysis by cortical mechanisms.
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Additional Information: | © 2012 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Received March 9, 2011; published April 17, 2012. This work was funded by the Mathers Foundation, ONR, DARPA, and NSF. Author contributions: Co-authors Moran Cerf and Michael Mackay contributed equally to this work. Commercial relationships: none. | ||||||||||
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Subject Keywords: | eye-tracking; natural scenes; saliency; saccadic latency; drift diffusion model | ||||||||||
Issue or Number: | 4 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1167/12.4.9 | ||||||||||
Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:20120605-104655889 | ||||||||||
Persistent URL: | https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20120605-104655889 | ||||||||||
Official Citation: | Mackay, M., Cerf, M., & Koch, C. (2012). Evidence for two distinct mechanisms directing gaze in natural scenes. Journal of Vision, 12(4):9, 1–12, http://www.journalofvision.org/content/12/4/9, doi:10.1167/12.4.9. | ||||||||||
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ID Code: | 31812 | ||||||||||
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Deposited By: | Jason Perez | ||||||||||
Deposited On: | 05 Jun 2012 20:45 | ||||||||||
Last Modified: | 09 Nov 2021 20:01 |
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