Lateral presentation of faces alters overall viewing strategy

PeerJ

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Christopher J. Luke¹  Petra M.J. Pollux¹ 

[1] School of Psychology, University of Lincoln,, Lincoln

关键词: Faces;    Gaze bias;    Emotion;    Eye-tracking;    Facial expressions;    Screen bias;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.2241

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

Eye tracking has been used during face categorisation and identification tasks to identify perceptually salient facial features and infer underlying cognitive processes. However, viewing patterns are influenced by a variety of gaze biases, drawing fixations to the centre of a screen and horizontally to the left side of face images (left-gaze bias). In order to investigate potential interactions between gaze biases uniquely associated with facial expression processing, and those associated with screen location, face stimuli were presented in three possible screen positions to the left, right and centre. Comparisons of fixations between screen locations highlight a significant impact of the screen centre bias, pulling fixations towards the centre of the screen and modifying gaze biases generally observed during facial categorisation tasks. A left horizontal bias for fixations was found to be independent of screen position but interacting with screen centre bias, drawing fixations to the left hemi-face rather than just to the left of the screen. Implications for eye tracking studies utilising centrally presented faces are discussed.

【 授权许可】

CC BY