Looking to score: the dissociation of goal influence on eye movement and meta-attentional allocation in a complex dynamic natural scene
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Taya, S., Windridge, D. and Osman, M. 2012. Looking to score: the dissociation of goal influence on eye movement and meta-attentional allocation in a complex dynamic natural scene. PLoS ONE. 7 (6). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039060
Type | Article |
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Title | Looking to score: the dissociation of goal influence on eye movement and meta-attentional allocation in a complex dynamic natural scene |
Authors | Taya, S., Windridge, D. and Osman, M. |
Abstract | Several studies have reported that task instructions influence eye-movement behavior during static image observation. In contrast, during dynamic scene observation we show that while the specificity of the goal of a task influences observers’ beliefs about where they look, the goal does not in turn influence eye-movement patterns. In our study observers watched short video clips of a single tennis match and were asked to make subjective judgments about the allocation of visual attention to the items presented in the clip (e.g., ball, players, court lines, and umpire). However, before attending to the clips, observers were either told to simply watch clips (non-specific goal), or they were told to watch the clips with a view to judging which of the two tennis players was awarded the point (specific goal). The results of subjective reports suggest that observers believed that they allocated their attention more to goal-related items (e.g. court lines) if they performed the goal-specific task. However, we did not find the effect of goal specificity on major eye-movement parameters (i.e., saccadic amplitudes, inter-saccadic intervals, and gaze coherence). We conclude that the specificity of a task goal can alter observer’s beliefs about their attention allocation strategy, but such task-driven meta-attentional modulation does not necessarily correlate with eye-movement behavior. |
Publisher | Public Library of Science |
Journal | PLoS ONE |
ISSN | 1932-6203 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 29 Jun 2012 |
Publication process dates | |
Submitted | 24 May 2011 |
Accepted | 17 May 2012 |
Deposited | 10 Nov 2023 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | License |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039060 |
PubMed ID | 22768058 |
PubMed Central ID | 3387190 |
Web of Science identifier | WOS:000305892100028 |
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