Visual Attention: The Active Vision Perspective

Findlay, John M.; Gilchrist, Iain D.

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-21591-4_5

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“…Thus, the larger distractor-related N1 amplitude for short compared to long following saccades could reflect a facilitation of sensory processing due to the difference in distribution of covert spatial attention. This is corroborated by the active vision perspective of attention as proposed by Findlay and Gilchrist (2001) suggesting that covert attention to a peripheral location supplements but not substitutes for actual movement of the eyes.…”

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Saccadic context indicates information processing within visual fixations: Evidence from event-related potentials and eye-movements analysis of the distractor effect

Graupner

Pannasch

Velichkovsky

2011

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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Saccadic context indicates information processing within visual fixations: Evidence from event-related potentials and eye-movements analysis of the distractor effect

Graupner

Pannasch

Velichkovsky

2011

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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“…Visual perception progresses as an interaction between top-down (Buswell 1935;Henderson 2003;Rayner 2009;Yarbus 1967) and bottom-up factors (Itti and Koch 2001;Itti et al 1998). Furthermore, current cognitive goals of the viewer affect the nature of eye movements in visual perception (Findlay and Gilchrist 2001;Henderson and Hollingworth 1999;Henderson and Pierce 2008;Rayner 1998;Rayner et al 2007;Parkhurst and Neibur 2003;Torralba et al 2006). Both linguistic and non-linguistic representations dynamically interact with one another (Rayner et al 2008;Zelinsky 2008) during language-vision interaction.…”

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On the mental representations originating during the interaction between language and vision

Mishra

Marmolejo‐Ramos

2010

Cogn Process

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The interaction between vision and language processing is clearly of interest to both cognitive psychologists and psycholinguists. Recent research has begun to create understanding of the interaction between vision and language in terms of the representational issues involved. In this paper, we first review some of the theoretical and methodological issues in the current vision-language interaction debate. Later, we develop a model that attempts to account for effects of affordances and visual context on language-scene interaction as well as the role of sensorimotor simulation. The paper addresses theoretical issues related to the mental representations that arise when visual and linguistic systems interact.

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“…Evidence for this type of guidance comes primarily from visual search experiments, where semantic information about visual referents is used to optimize the allocation of visual attention (e.g., Henderson & Hollingworth, 1999;Findlay & Gilchrist, 2001;Henderson, 2003;Zelinsky & Schmidt, 2009;Nuthmann & Henderson, 2010;Hwang, Wang, & Pomplun, 2011). Since a central conceptual feature of referents is their animacy, (i.e., whether they are living things or not), already shown to impact grammatical assignment and word ordering (e.g., McDonald, Bock, & Kelly, 1993;Levelt, Roelofs, & Meyer, 1999;Prat-Sala & Branigan, 2000;Branigan, Pickering, & Tanaka, 2008;Coco & Keller, 2009) and expected to play a key role in sentence production (McDonald et al, 1993), in the current study, we manipulate animacy to investigate conceptual guidance effects.…”

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Integrating mechanisms of visual guidance in naturalistic language production

Coco

Keller

2014

Cogn Process

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Situated language production requires the integration of visual attention and linguistic processing. Previous work has not conclusively disentangled the role of perceptual scene information and structural sentence information in guiding visual attention. In this paper, we present an eye-tracking study that demonstrates that three types of guidance, perceptual, conceptual, and structural, interact to control visual attention. In a cued language production experiment, we manipulate perceptual (scene clutter) and conceptual guidance (cue animacy), and measure structural guidance (syntactic complexity of the utterance). Analysis of the time course of language production, before and during speech, reveals that all three forms of guidance affect the complexity of visual responses, quantified in terms of the entropy of attentional landscapes and the turbulence of scan patterns, especially during speech. We find that perceptual and conceptual guidance mediate the distribution of attention in the scene, whereas structural guidance closely relates to scan-pattern complexity. Furthermore, the eye-voice span of the cued object and its perceptual competitor are similar; its latency mediated by both perceptual and structural guidance. These results rule out a strict interpretation of structural guidance as the single dominant form of visual guidance in situated language production. Rather, the phase of the task and the associated demands of cross-modal cognitive processing determine the mechanisms that guide attention.

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Visual Attention: The Active Vision Perspective

Cited by 43 publications

References 58 publications

Saccadic context indicates information processing within visual fixations: Evidence from event-related potentials and eye-movements analysis of the distractor effect

Saccadic context indicates information processing within visual fixations: Evidence from event-related potentials and eye-movements analysis of the distractor effect

On the mental representations originating during the interaction between language and vision

Integrating mechanisms of visual guidance in naturalistic language production

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