Comparing scanpaths during scene encoding and recognition: A multi-dimensional approach
Complex stimuli and tasks elicit particular eye movement sequences. Previous research has focused on comparing between these scanpaths, particularly in memory and imagery research where it has been proposed that observers reproduce their eye movements when recognizing or imagining a stimulus. Howeve...
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| author | Tom Foulsham Richard Dewhurst Marcus Nyström Halszka Jarodzka Roger Johansson Geoffrey Underwood Kenneth Holmqvist |
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| description | Complex stimuli and tasks elicit particular eye movement sequences. Previous research has focused on comparing between these scanpaths, particularly in memory and imagery research where it has been proposed that observers reproduce their eye movements when recognizing or imagining a stimulus. However, it is not clear whether scanpath similarity is related to memory performance and which particular aspects of the eye movements recur. We therefore compared eye movements in a picture memory task, using a recently proposed comparison method, MultiMatch, which quantifies scanpath similarity across multiple dimensions including shape and fixation duration. Scanpaths were more similar when the same participant’s eye movements were compared from two viewings of the same image than between different images or different participants viewing the same image. In addition, fixation durations were similar within a participant and this similarity was associated with memory performance. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6e4724197cd2458d946ed64bc6431d7d2025-08-20T03:16:42ZengMDPI AGJournal of Eye Movement Research1995-86922012-08-015410.16910/jemr.5.4.3Comparing scanpaths during scene encoding and recognition: A multi-dimensional approachTom Foulsham0Richard Dewhurst1Marcus Nyström2Halszka Jarodzka3Roger Johansson4Geoffrey Underwood5Kenneth Holmqvist6Department of Psychology, University of Essex, UKHumanities Lab, Lund University, SwedenHumanities Lab, Lund University, SwedenCentre for Learning Sciences, Heerlen, The NetherlandsHumanities Lab, Lund University, SwedenSchool of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UKHumanities Lab, Lund University, SwedenComplex stimuli and tasks elicit particular eye movement sequences. Previous research has focused on comparing between these scanpaths, particularly in memory and imagery research where it has been proposed that observers reproduce their eye movements when recognizing or imagining a stimulus. However, it is not clear whether scanpath similarity is related to memory performance and which particular aspects of the eye movements recur. We therefore compared eye movements in a picture memory task, using a recently proposed comparison method, MultiMatch, which quantifies scanpath similarity across multiple dimensions including shape and fixation duration. Scanpaths were more similar when the same participant’s eye movements were compared from two viewings of the same image than between different images or different participants viewing the same image. In addition, fixation durations were similar within a participant and this similarity was associated with memory performance.https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2341scanpathsscene perceptionmemory |
| spellingShingle | Tom Foulsham Richard Dewhurst Marcus Nyström Halszka Jarodzka Roger Johansson Geoffrey Underwood Kenneth Holmqvist Comparing scanpaths during scene encoding and recognition: A multi-dimensional approach Journal of Eye Movement Research scanpaths scene perception memory |
| title | Comparing scanpaths during scene encoding and recognition: A multi-dimensional approach |
| title_full | Comparing scanpaths during scene encoding and recognition: A multi-dimensional approach |
| title_fullStr | Comparing scanpaths during scene encoding and recognition: A multi-dimensional approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comparing scanpaths during scene encoding and recognition: A multi-dimensional approach |
| title_short | Comparing scanpaths during scene encoding and recognition: A multi-dimensional approach |
| title_sort | comparing scanpaths during scene encoding and recognition a multi dimensional approach |
| topic | scanpaths scene perception memory |
| url | https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2341 |
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