Are you really looking? Finding the answer through fixation patterns and EEG

Are you really looking? Finding the answer through fixation patterns and EEG

Brouwer, A.-M.
Hogervorst, M.A.
Herman, P.
Kooi, F.
TNO Defensie en Veiligheid

2009

Eye movement recordings do not tell us whether observers are 'really looking' or whether they are paying attention to something else than the visual environment. We want to determine whether an observer's main current occupation is visual or not by investigating fixation patterns and EEG. Subjects were presented with auditory and visual stimuli. In some conditions, they focused on the auditory information whereas in others they searched or judged the visual stimuli. Observers made more fixations that are less cluttered in the visual compared to the auditory tasks, and they were less variable in their average fixation location. Fixated features revealed which target the observers were looking for. Gaze was not attracted more by salient features when performing the auditory task. 8-12 Hz EEG oscillations recorded over the parieto-occipital regions were stronger during the auditory task than during visual search. Our results are directly relevant for monitoring surveillance workers. © 2009 Springer.

Vision
attention
eye tracking
brain

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:10aa9942-e20b-4429-99a7-8cce48e42a96

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02812-0_39

352068

364202811X

0302-9743

5th International Conference on Foundations of Augmented Cognition, FAC 2009, Held as Part of HCI International 2009, 19 July 2009 through 24 July 2009, San Diego, CA. ference code: 80160, 5638 LNAI, 329-338

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

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