ArticleJournal of vision2021
The importance of peripheral vision when searching 3D real-world scenes: A gaze-contingent study in virtual reality.
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- Peripheral vision in real-world tasks: A systematic review.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Pooled it
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- Effect of peripheral refractive errors on driving performance.Biomedical optics express · 2022Article
- Application of Realistic 3D Model in Building Prefabricated Nanomaterial Structure.International journal of analytical chemistry · 2022Article
- Flipping the world upside down: Using eye tracking in virtual reality to study visual search in inverted scenes.Journal of eye movement research · 2022Article
- Neural responses to natural visual motion are spatially selective across the visual field, with selectivity differing across brain areas and task.The European journal of neuroscience · 2021Article
- Get Your Guidance Going: Investigating the Activation of Spatial Priors for Efficient Search in Virtual Reality.Brain sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
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 been particularly established by on-screen experiments. We conducted a gaze-contingent experiment in virtual reality in order to test how the perceived roles of central and peripheral visions translated to more natural settings. The use of everyday scenes in virtual reality allowed us to study visual attention by implementing a fairly ecological protocol that cannot be implemented in the real world. Central or peripheral vision was masked during visual search, with target objects selected according to scene semantic rules. Analyzing the resulting search behavior, we found that target objects that were not spatially constrained to a probable location within the scene impacted search measures negatively. Our results diverge from on-screen studies in that search performances were only slightly affected by central vision loss. In particular, a central mask did not impact verification times when the target was grammatically constrained to an anchor object. Our findings demonstrates that the role of central vision (up to 6 degrees of eccentricities) in identifying objects in natural scenes seems to be minor, while the role of peripheral preprocessing of targets in immersive real-world searches may have been underestimated by on-screen experiments.
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