title: Modelling eye movements in a categorical search task.
abstract: We introduce a model of eye movements during categorical search, the task of finding and recognizing categorically defined targets. It extends a previous model of eye movements during search (target acquisition model, TAM) by using distances from an support vector machine classification boundary to create probability maps indicating pixel-by-pixel evidence for the target category in search images. Other additions include functionality enabling target-absent searches, and a fixation-based blurring of the search images now based on a mapping between visual and collicular space. We tested this model on images from a previously conducted variable set-size (6/13/20) present/absent search experiment where participants searched for categorically defined teddy bear targets among random category distractors. The model not only captured target-present/absent set-size effects, but also accurately predicted for all conditions the numbers of fixations made prior to search judgements. It also predicted the percentages of first eye movements during search landing on targets, a conservative measure of search guidance. Effects of set size on false negative and false positive errors were also captured, but error rates in general were overestimated. We conclude that visual features discriminating a target category from non-targets can be learned and used to guide eye movements during categorical search.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, , Stony Brook, NY 11794-2500, USA.
authors.forename: Gregory J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Zelinsky
authors.forename: Hossein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Adeli
authors.forename: Yifan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: Dimitris
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Samaras
mesh_terms: D001070:Appetitive Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D004193:Discrimination Learning / Q000502:physiology; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D012160:Retina / Q000378:metabolism; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology
keywords: classification; computational models; eye movement guidance; object detection; realistic objects; visual search
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