Good-enough attentional guidance

X Yu, Z Zhou, SI Becker, SEP Boettcher… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2023 - cell.com
Theories of attention posit that attentional guidance operates on information held in a target
template within memory. The template is often thought to contain veridical target features …

Naturalistic reinforcement learning

T Wise, K Emery, A Radulescu - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Humans possess a remarkable ability to make decisions within real-world environments that
are expansive, complex, and multidimensional. Human cognitive computational …

Auxiliary scene-context information provided by anchor objects guides attention and locomotion in natural search behavior

J Helbing, D Draschkow, M L.-H. Võ - Psychological Science, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Successful adaptive behavior requires efficient attentional and locomotive systems. Previous
research has thoroughly investigated how we achieve this efficiency during natural behavior …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of peripheral vision when searching 3D real-world scenes: A gaze-contingent study in virtual reality

EJ David, J Beitner, MLH Võ - Journal of Vision, 2021 - tvst.arvojournals.org
Visual search in natural scenes is a complex task relying on peripheral vision to detect
potential targets and central vision to verify them. The segregation of the visual fields has …

Active visual search in naturalistic environments reflects individual differences in classic visual search performance

TL Botch, BD Garcia, YB Choi, N Feffer… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Visual search is a ubiquitous activity in real-world environments. Yet, traditionally, visual
search is investigated in tightly controlled paradigms, where head-restricted participants …

Medirl: Predicting the visual attention of drivers via maximum entropy deep inverse reinforcement learning

S Baee, E Pakdamanian, I Kim… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Inspired by human visual attention, we propose a novel inverse reinforcement learning
formulation using Maximum Entropy Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learning (MEDIRL) for …

The impact of different distractions on outdoor visual search and object memory

SJ Nachtnebel, AJ Cambronero-Delgadillo… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
We investigated whether and how different types of search distractions affect visual search
behavior and target memory while participants searched in a real-world environment. They …

Scene semantics affects allocentric spatial coding for action in naturalistic (virtual) environments

BR Baltaretu, I Schuetz, MLH Võ, K Fiehler - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Interacting with objects in our environment requires determining their locations, often with
respect to surrounding objects (ie, allocentrically). According to the scene grammar …

Eye and head movements while encoding and recognizing panoramic scenes in virtual reality

WF Bischof, NC Anderson, A Kingstone - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
One approach to studying the recognition of scenes and objects relies on the comparison of
eye movement patterns during encoding and recognition. Past studies typically analyzed the …

Using a flashlight-contingent window paradigm to investigate visual search and object memory in virtual reality and on computer screens

J Beitner, J Helbing, EJ David, MLH Võ - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
A popular technique to modulate visual input during search is to use gaze-contingent
windows. However, these are often rather discomforting, providing the impression of visual …