Editorial

Benjamin W Tatler

doi:10.16910/jemr.2.2.1

Abstract

Editorial to the Special Issue on Perception of Natural Scenes

Highlights

How we visually sample and encode information from scenes has been at the heart of eye movement research since Dodge, Judd and Stratton first noted the discontinuous sampling by the eye when viewing patterns and simple line illusions. Stratton (1902, 1906) and Judd (1905a, b) both noted that the oculomotor behaviour as people viewed line illusions did not map clearly onto the perceptual experiences of those illusions – for example, there was no evidence that particular patterns of looking either promoted or denied the experience of seeing the illusion
Whether fixations are attracted to particular visual features has become a prominent question in eye movement research and remains controversial
Nyström and Holmqvist present a new technique for evaluating whether the correlation between features and fixation reflects a role for low-level features in eye guidance or emerges from correlations between higher-level factors and low level image features

Summary

Introduction

How we visually sample and encode information from scenes has been at the heart of eye movement research since Dodge, Judd and Stratton first noted the discontinuous sampling by the eye when viewing patterns and simple line illusions. Stratton (1902, 1906) and Judd (1905a, b) both noted that the oculomotor behaviour as people viewed line illusions did not map clearly onto the perceptual experiences of those illusions – for example, there was no evidence that particular patterns of looking either promoted or denied the experience of seeing the illusion. Whether fixations are attracted to particular visual features has become a prominent question in eye movement research and remains controversial.

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