Making sense of real-world scenes

GL Malcolm, IIA Groen, CI Baker - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2016 - cell.com
To interact with the world, we have to make sense of the continuous sensory input conveying
information about our environment. A recent surge of studies has investigated the processes …

The role of memory for visual search in scenes

M Le‐Hoa Võ, JM Wolfe - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Many daily activities involve looking for something. The ease with which these searches are
performed often allows one to forget that searching represents complex interactions …

Distinct roles of eye movements during memory encoding and retrieval

C Damiano, DB Walther - Cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
A long line of research has shown that vision and memory are closely linked, such that
particular eye movement behaviour aids memory performance. In two experiments, we ask …

Keeping it real: Looking beyond capacity limits in visual cognition

Á Kristjánsson, D Draschkow - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2021 - Springer
Research within visual cognition has made tremendous strides in uncovering the basic
operating characteristics of the visual system by reducing the complexity of natural vision to …

Memory and visual search in naturalistic 2D and 3D environments

CL Li, MP Aivar, DM Kit, MH Tong… - Journal of vision, 2016 - jov.arvojournals.org
The role of memory in guiding attention allocation in daily behaviors is not well understood.
In experiments with two-dimensional (2D) images, there is mixed evidence about the …

Eye movements in real-world scene photographs: General characteristics and effects of viewing task

DA Cronin, EH Hall, JE Goold, TR Hayes… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The present study examines eye movement behavior in real-world scenes with a large (N=
100) sample. We report baseline measures of eye movement behavior in our sample …

The changing landscape: High-level influences on eye movement guidance in scenes

CC Williams, MS Castelhano - vision, 2019 - mdpi.com
The use of eye movements to explore scene processing has exploded over the last decade.
Eye movements provide distinct advantages when examining scene processing because …

Fixation Disparity: A Possible Index of Visuospatial Cognition during Authentic Learning Tasks

DH Koh, Z Xu, J Wang, AN Burgess… - Mind, Brain, and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article describes a novel method for quantifying fixation disparity and evaluates its role
in visuospatial cognition during an authentic learning task, specifically, the determination of …

Gist in time: Scene semantics and structure enhance recall of searched objects

EL Josephs, D Draschkow, JM Wolfe, MLH Võ - Acta Psychologica, 2016 - Elsevier
Previous work has shown that recall of objects that are incidentally encountered as targets in
visual search is better than recall of objects that have been intentionally memorized …

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 …