Active Vision: The Psychology of Looking and Seeing

By J. Findlay, Iain D. Gilchrist. 2003

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Learning to Recognize Daily Actions Using Gaze (2012, background): “Research on attention based on top-down components such as scene content, actions and objects has been very limited [28,8,2].”
Visual search: a retrospective. (2011, background): “This is the starting point for this review article, which takes a different perspective than other thorough treatments of visual search (Findlay & Gilchrist, 2003; Nakayama & Martini, 2011; Verghese, 2001; Wolfe, 1998), in identifying the strategies and mechanisms that the brain utilizes to…”
VISUAL SALIENCY DOES NOT ACCOUNT FOR EYE MOVEMENTS DURING VISUAL SEARCH IN REAL-WORLD SCENES (2007, background): “Indeed, although internal (covert) attention and overt eye movements can be dissociated (Posner & Cohen, 1984), the strong natural relationship between covert and overt attention has recently led some investigators to suggest that studying covert visual attention independently of overt attention is ”
Visual Fixation Durations and Saccade Amplitudes: Shifting Relationship in a Variety of Conditions (2008, background): “Most visual activities require the execution of a saccade about 3-4 times per second (e.g. Findlay & Gilchrist, 2003).”
The attentional theory of cinematic continuity (2012, background): “Covert attention is the increase of visual processing resources allocated to a point in space without the eyes moving to the location of the selected feature (see Findlay & Gilchrist, 2003 for review).”