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15-06-2016 | Original Article

Using space to represent categories: insights from gaze position

Auteurs: Corinna S. Martarelli, Sandra Chiquet, Bruno Laeng, Fred W. Mast

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 4/2017

Abstract

We investigated the boundaries among imagery, memory, and perception by measuring gaze during retrieved versus imagined visual information. Eye fixations during recall were bound to the location at which a specific stimulus was encoded. However, eye position information generalized to novel objects of the same category that had not been seen before. For example, encoding an image of a dog in a specific location enhanced the likelihood of looking at the same location during subsequent mental imagery of other mammals. The results suggest that eye movements can also be launched by abstract representations of categories and not exclusively by a single episode or a specific visual exemplar.

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In Version A of the experiment, participants were presented 32 images that had been randomly selected from the initial 64 images; in Version B they were presented the remaining 32 images. The images that were presented in the encoding phase constituted the old items in the recall phase. The remaining 32 images were used as new items in the recall phase.

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Titel: Using space to represent categories: insights from gaze position
Auteurs: Corinna S. Martarelli
Sandra Chiquet
Bruno Laeng
Fred W. Mast
Publicatiedatum: 15-06-2016
Uitgeverij: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research / Uitgave 4/2017
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-016-0781-2

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