Faces and text attract gaze independent of the task: Experimental data and computer model

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1-15

  Cerf, Moran ^a   Paxon Frady, E ^a   Koch, Christof ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Attention; Eye tracking; Faces; Human psychophysics; Natural scenes; Saliency model; Text

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE FIXATION; FACE; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; OCULOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; WRITING;

ALGORITHMS; ATTENTION; CELLULAR PHONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FACE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; WRITING;

EID: 77950357909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.12.1     Document Type: Article

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