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Differences in Sequential Eye Movement Behavior between Taiwanese and American Viewers
Knowledge of how information is sought in the visual world is useful for predicting and simulating human behavior. Taiwanese participants and American participants were instructed to judge the facial expression of a focal face that was flanked horizontally by other faces while their eye movements we...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873513/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27242610 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00697 |
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author | Lee, Yen-Ju Greene, Harold H. Tsai, Chia W. Chou, Yu J. |
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description | Knowledge of how information is sought in the visual world is useful for predicting and simulating human behavior. Taiwanese participants and American participants were instructed to judge the facial expression of a focal face that was flanked horizontally by other faces while their eye movements were monitored. The Taiwanese participants distributed their eye fixations more widely than American participants, started to look away from the focal face earlier than American participants, and spent a higher percentage of time looking at the flanking faces. Eye movement transition matrices also provided evidence that Taiwanese participants continually, and systematically shifted gaze between focal and flanking faces. Eye movement patterns were less systematic and less prevalent in American participants. This suggests that both cultures utilized different attention allocation strategies. The results highlight the importance of determining sequential eye movement statistics in cross-cultural research on the utilization of visual context. |
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spelling | pubmed-48735132016-05-30 Differences in Sequential Eye Movement Behavior between Taiwanese and American Viewers Lee, Yen-Ju Greene, Harold H. Tsai, Chia W. Chou, Yu J. Front Psychol Psychology Knowledge of how information is sought in the visual world is useful for predicting and simulating human behavior. Taiwanese participants and American participants were instructed to judge the facial expression of a focal face that was flanked horizontally by other faces while their eye movements were monitored. The Taiwanese participants distributed their eye fixations more widely than American participants, started to look away from the focal face earlier than American participants, and spent a higher percentage of time looking at the flanking faces. Eye movement transition matrices also provided evidence that Taiwanese participants continually, and systematically shifted gaze between focal and flanking faces. Eye movement patterns were less systematic and less prevalent in American participants. This suggests that both cultures utilized different attention allocation strategies. The results highlight the importance of determining sequential eye movement statistics in cross-cultural research on the utilization of visual context. Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4873513/ /pubmed/27242610 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00697 Text en Copyright © 2016 Lee, Greene, Tsai and Chou. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Lee, Yen-Ju Greene, Harold H. Tsai, Chia W. Chou, Yu J. Differences in Sequential Eye Movement Behavior between Taiwanese and American Viewers |
title | Differences in Sequential Eye Movement Behavior between Taiwanese and American Viewers |
title_full | Differences in Sequential Eye Movement Behavior between Taiwanese and American Viewers |
title_fullStr | Differences in Sequential Eye Movement Behavior between Taiwanese and American Viewers |
title_full_unstemmed | Differences in Sequential Eye Movement Behavior between Taiwanese and American Viewers |
title_short | Differences in Sequential Eye Movement Behavior between Taiwanese and American Viewers |
title_sort | differences in sequential eye movement behavior between taiwanese and american viewers |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873513/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27242610 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00697 |
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