The roles of scene gist and spatial dependency among objects in the semantic guidance of attention in real-world scenes.

Abstract:

:A previous study (Vision Research 51 (2011) 1192-1205) found evidence for semantic guidance of visual attention during the inspection of real-world scenes, i.e., an influence of semantic relationships among scene objects on overt shifts of attention. In particular, the results revealed an observer bias toward gaze transitions between semantically similar objects. However, this effect is not necessarily indicative of semantic processing of individual objects but may be mediated by knowledge of the scene gist, which does not require object recognition, or by known spatial dependency among objects. To examine the mechanisms underlying semantic guidance, in the present study, participants were asked to view a series of displays with the scene gist excluded and spatial dependency varied. Our results show that spatial dependency among objects seems to be sufficient to induce semantic guidance. Scene gist, on the other hand, does not seem to affect how observers use semantic information to guide attention while viewing natural scenes. Extracting semantic information mainly based on spatial dependency may be an efficient strategy of the visual system that only adds little cognitive load to the viewing task.

journal_name

Vision Res

journal_title

Vision research

authors

Wu CC,Wang HC,Pomplun M

doi

10.1016/j.visres.2014.08.019

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-12-01 00:00:00

pages

10-20

eissn

0042-6989

issn

1878-5646

pii

S0042-6989(14)00206-5

journal_volume

105

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