ArticleVisual cognition2016
Selective scanpath repetition during memory-guided visual search.
Article in Visual cognition, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Saccades track visual associative memory processes with precision and sensitivity.Brain communications · 2025Article
- Refixation behavior in naturalistic viewing: Methods, mechanisms, and neural correlates.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Review
- Article
- Dynamic interactions between memory and viewing behaviors: Insights from dyadic modeling of eye movements.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2023Article
- Visual attention during seeing for speaking in healthy aging.Psychology and aging · 2023Article
- Gaze Restriction and Reactivation of Place-bound Content Drive Eye Movements During Mental Imagery.Journal of cognition · 2023Article
- Temporal context guides visual exploration during scene recognition.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2021Article
- The spatial distribution of attention predicts familiarity strength during encoding and retrieval.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2020Article
- Why do we retrace our visual steps? Semantic and episodic memory in gaze reinstatement.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- Long-term memory and hippocampal function support predictive gaze control during goal-directed search.Journal of vision · 2020Article
- Eye movements support behavioral pattern completion.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- The intersection between the oculomotor and hippocampal memory systems: empirical developments and clinical implications.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2020Review
- Refixation patterns reveal memory-encoding strategies in free viewing.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2019Article
- The Changing Landscape: High-Level Influences on Eye Movement Guidance in Scenes.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Eye Movements Actively Reinstate Spatiotemporal Mnemonic Content.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Visual search efficiency improves with repetition of a search display, yet the mechanisms behind these processing gains remain unclear. According to Scanpath Theory, memory retrieval is mediated by repetition of the pattern of eye movements or "scanpath" elicited during stimulus encoding. Using this framework, we tested the prediction that scanpath recapitulation reflects relational memory guidance during repeated search events. Younger and older subjects were instructed to find changing targets within flickering naturalistic scenes. Search efficiency (search time, number of fixations, fixation duration) and scanpath similarity (repetition) were compared across age groups for novel (V1) and repeated (V2) search events. Younger adults outperformed older adults on all efficiency measures at both V1 and V2, while the search time benefit for repeated viewing (V1-V2) did not differ by age. Fixation-binned scanpath similarity analyses revealed repetition of initial and final (but not middle) V1 fixations at V2, with older adults repeating more initial V1 fixations than young adults. In young adults only, early scanpath similarity correlated negatively with search time at test, indicating increased efficiency, whereas the similarity of V2 fixations to middle V1 fixations predicted poor search performance. We conclude that scanpath compression mediates increased search efficiency by selectively recapitulating encoding fixations that provide goal-relevant input. Extending Scanpath Theory, results suggest that scanpath repetition varies as a function of time and memory integrity.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.