ArticleAttention, perception & psychophysics2020
Center bias outperforms image salience but not semantics in accounting for attention during scene viewing.
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How do we determine where to focus our attention in real-world scenes? Image saliency theory proposes that our attention is 'pulled' to scene regions that differ in low-level image features. However, models that formalize image saliency theory often contain significant scene-independent spatial biases. In the present studies, three different viewing tasks were used to evaluate whether image saliency models account for variance in scene fixation density based primarily on scene-dependent, low-level feature contrast, or on their scene-independent spatial biases. For comparison, fixation density was also compared to semantic feature maps (Meaning Maps; Henderson & Hayes, Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 743-747, 2017) that were generated using human ratings of isolated scene patches. The squared correlations (R
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