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Article Dans Une Revue Cognition Année : 2023

Prior knowledge about events depicted in scenes decreases oculomotor exploration

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The visual input that the eyes receive usually contains temporally continuous information about unfolding events. Therefore, humans can accumulate knowledge about their current environment. Typical studies on scene perception, however, involve presenting multiple unrelated images and thereby render this accumulation unnecessary. Our study, instead, facilitated it and explored its effects. Specifically, we investigated how recentlyaccumulated prior knowledge affects gaze behavior. Participants viewed sequences of static film frames that contained several 'context frames' followed by a 'critical frame'. The context frames showed either events from which the situation depicted in the critical frame naturally followed, or events unrelated to this situation. Therefore, participants viewed identical critical frames while possessing prior knowledge that was either relevant or irrelevant to the frames' content. In the former case, participants' gaze behavior was slightly more exploratory, as revealed by seven gaze characteristics we analyzed. This result demonstrates that recently-gained prior knowledge reduces exploratory eye movements.
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hal-04154195 , version 1 (06-07-2023)

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Marek A Pedziwiatr, Sophie Heer, Antoine Coutrot, Peter Bex, Isabelle Mareschal. Prior knowledge about events depicted in scenes decreases oculomotor exploration. Cognition, 2023, 238, pp.105544. ⟨10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105544⟩. ⟨hal-04154195⟩
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