Visual exploration dynamics are low-dimensional and driven by intrinsic factors

• Published in: Communications biology Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 1100 - 14
• Main Authors: Zangrossi, Andrea, Cona, Giorgia, Celli, Miriam, Zorzi, Marco, Corbetta, Maurizio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 17.09.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/378/2617/1795; 631/378/2649/1310; Adult; Attention; Biology; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Eye; Eye Movements; Female; Humans; Italy; Life Sciences; Male; Semantics; Students; Visual Perception; Young Adult; Italy

When looking at visual images, the eyes move to the most salient and behaviourally relevant objects. Saliency and semantic information significantly explain where people look. Less is known about the spatiotemporal properties of eye movements (i.e., how people look). We show that three latent variab...