E-paper

Authors list: Kollenda, Diana; Reher, Anna-Sophia V; de Haas, Benjamin

Publication year: 2024

Journal: PsyArXiv

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nx7jy

Publisher: Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)

Abstract: 

Do different people looking at the same scene perceive individual versions of what’s in front of them? If perception is individual, which mechanisms mediate our particular view of the world? Recent findings have shown systematic observer differences in gaze, but it is unclear whether individual fixation patterns translate to individual impressions of the same scene. Here, we find systematic differences in the nouns, verbs and adjectives people use when describing identical complex scenes. Crucially, pairwise observer differences in scene descriptions could be explained by pairwise differences in fixation patterns. The individual tendency to reference text and people could be explained by corresponding fixation biases. Our results strongly suggest that subjective scene perception is shaped by individual gaze biases and can be studied via the systematic analysis of individual descriptions.

Harvard Citation style: Kollenda, D., Reher, A. and de Haas, B. (2024) Individual gaze predicts individual scene descriptions [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nx7jy

APA Citation style: Kollenda, D., Reher, A., & de Haas, B. (2024). Individual gaze predicts individual scene descriptions. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nx7jy