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01-11-2008 | Original Article

The effect of spatial frequency content on parameters of eye movements

Auteurs: Marina T. Groner, Rudolf Groner, Adrian von Mühlenen

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 6/2008

Abstract

Two experiments were conducted to examine the influence of the spatial frequency content of natural images on saccadic size and fixation duration. In the first experiment 10 pictures of natural textures were low-pass filtered (0.04–0.76 cycles/deg) and high-pass filtered (1.91–19.56 cycles/deg) and presented with the unfiltered originals in random order, each for 10 s, to 18 participants, with the instruction to inspect them in order to find a suitable name. The participants’ eye movements were recorded. It was found that low-pass filtered images resulted in larger saccadic amplitudes compared with high-pass filtered images. A second experiment was conducted with natural stimuli selected for different power spectra which supported the results outlined above. In general, low-spatial frequencies elicit larger saccades associated with shorter fixation durations whereas high-spatial frequencies elicit smaller saccades with longer fixation durations.

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Titel: The effect of spatial frequency content on parameters of eye movements
Auteurs: Marina T. Groner
Rudolf Groner
Adrian von Mühlenen
Publicatiedatum: 01-11-2008
Uitgeverij: Springer-Verlag
Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research / Uitgave 6/2008
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-008-0167-1

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