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Eye-tracking study reveals category differences in visual cognition similarity

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Researchers investigated the relationship between fixation density maps (FDMs), which track eye movements, and psychological potential fields (PPFs), which represent cognitive processes, when viewing sketches. They found significant differences in similarity between FDMs and PPFs across categories like animals, non-animals, and meaningless shapes, especially when accounting for baseline levels. Rotated presentations did not affect these category-specific differences, and meaningless shapes consistently showed lower similarity and variability compared to meaningful objects. AI

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Eye-tracking study reveals category differences in visual cognition similarity

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Naoyuki Awano, Yuki Hayashi ·

    Category differences in similarity between fixation density maps and psychological potential fields for sketches

    arXiv:2611.06930v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When an object comes into view, humans can instantaneously recognize it if known to them. However, assessing how this recognition takes place remains challenging. A few studies using simple sketches have reported varying degrees o…

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