Understanding the collinear masking effect in visual search through eye tracking.
Attention capture
Eye movements
Hidden Markov Models
Visual search
Journal
Psychonomic bulletin & review
ISSN: 1531-5320
Titre abrégé: Psychon Bull Rev
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9502924
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2021
Dec 2021
Historique:
accepted:
03
05
2021
pubmed:
11
6
2021
medline:
15
12
2021
entrez:
10
6
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Recent research has reported that, while both orientation contrast and collinearity increase target salience in visual search, a combination of the two counterintuitively masks a local target. Through eye-tracking and eye-movement analysis with hidden Markov models (EMHMM), here we showed that this collinear masking effect was associated with reduced eye-fixation consistency (as measured in entropy) at the central fixation cross prior to the search display presentation. As a decreased precision of saccade landing position is shown to be related to attention shift away from the saccadic target, our result suggested that the collinear masking effect may be related to attention shift to a non-saccadic-goal location in expectation of the search display before saccading to the central fixation cross. This attention shift may consequently interfere with attention capture by the collinear distractor containing the target, resulting in the masking effect. In contrast, although older adults had longer response times, more dispersed eye-movement pattern, and lower eye-movement consistency than young adults during visual search, the two age groups did not differ in the masking effect, suggesting limited contribution from ageing-related cognitive decline. Thus, participants' pre-saccadic attention shift prior to search may be an important factor influencing their search behavior.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34109536
doi: 10.3758/s13423-021-01944-7
pii: 10.3758/s13423-021-01944-7
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1933-1943Subventions
Organisme : RGC of Hong Kong
ID : #17609117
Organisme : Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
ID : MOST107-2410-H-002-129-MY3
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© 2021. The Psychonomic Society, Inc.
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