Eye-tracking study of inanimate objects
Апстракт
Unlike the animate objects, where participants were consistent in their looking patterns, for inanimates it was difficult to identify both consistent areas of fixations and a consistent order of fixations. Furthermore, in comparison to animate objects, inanimates received significantly shorter total looking time, shorter longest looks and a smaller number of overall fixations. However, as with animates, looking patterns did not systematically differ between the naming and non-naming conditions. These results suggested that animacy, but not labelling, impacts on looking behaviour in this paradigm. In the light of feature-based accounts of semantic memory organization, one could interpret these findings as suggesting that processing of the animate objects is based on the saliency/diagnosticity of their visual features (which is then reflected through participants eye-movements towards those features), whereas processing of the inanimate objects is based more on functional features (which... cannot be easily captured by looking behaviour in such a paradigm).
Кључне речи:
mental representations / inanimate objects / eye-trackingИзвор:
Psihologija, 2009, 42, 4, 417-436Издавач:
- Društvo psihologa Srbije, Beograd
DOI: 10.2298/PSI0904417K
ISSN: 0048-5705
WoS: 000272232600002
Scopus: 2-s2.0-77950529012
Институција/група
Psihologija / PsychologyTY - JOUR AU - Ković, Vanja AU - Plunkett, Kim AU - Westermann, Gert PY - 2009 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/886 AB - Unlike the animate objects, where participants were consistent in their looking patterns, for inanimates it was difficult to identify both consistent areas of fixations and a consistent order of fixations. Furthermore, in comparison to animate objects, inanimates received significantly shorter total looking time, shorter longest looks and a smaller number of overall fixations. However, as with animates, looking patterns did not systematically differ between the naming and non-naming conditions. These results suggested that animacy, but not labelling, impacts on looking behaviour in this paradigm. In the light of feature-based accounts of semantic memory organization, one could interpret these findings as suggesting that processing of the animate objects is based on the saliency/diagnosticity of their visual features (which is then reflected through participants eye-movements towards those features), whereas processing of the inanimate objects is based more on functional features (which cannot be easily captured by looking behaviour in such a paradigm). PB - Društvo psihologa Srbije, Beograd T2 - Psihologija T1 - Eye-tracking study of inanimate objects EP - 436 IS - 4 SP - 417 VL - 42 DO - 10.2298/PSI0904417K ER -
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Ković, V., Plunkett, K.,& Westermann, G.. (2009). Eye-tracking study of inanimate objects. in Psihologija Društvo psihologa Srbije, Beograd., 42(4), 417-436. https://doi.org/10.2298/PSI0904417K
Ković V, Plunkett K, Westermann G. Eye-tracking study of inanimate objects. in Psihologija. 2009;42(4):417-436. doi:10.2298/PSI0904417K .
Ković, Vanja, Plunkett, Kim, Westermann, Gert, "Eye-tracking study of inanimate objects" in Psihologija, 42, no. 4 (2009):417-436, https://doi.org/10.2298/PSI0904417K . .