TY - JOUR
T1 - Salience in paintings: Bottom-up influences on eye fixations.
AU - Fuchs-Leitner, Isabella
AU - Ansorge, Ulrich
AU - Redies, Christoph
AU - Leder, Helmut
PY - 2011/3
Y1 - 2011/3
N2 - In the current study, we investigated whether visual salience attracts attention in a bottom-up manner. We presented abstract and depictive paintings as well as photographs to naïve participants in free-viewing (Experiment 1) and target-search (Experiment 2) tasks. Image salience was computed in terms of local feature contrasts in color, luminance, and orientation. Based on the theories of stimulus-driven salience effects on attention and fixations, we expected salience effects in all conditions and a characteristic short-lived temporal profile of the salience-driven effect on fixations. Our results confirmed the predictions. Results are discussed in terms of their potential implications.
AB - In the current study, we investigated whether visual salience attracts attention in a bottom-up manner. We presented abstract and depictive paintings as well as photographs to naïve participants in free-viewing (Experiment 1) and target-search (Experiment 2) tasks. Image salience was computed in terms of local feature contrasts in color, luminance, and orientation. Based on the theories of stimulus-driven salience effects on attention and fixations, we expected salience effects in all conditions and a characteristic short-lived temporal profile of the salience-driven effect on fixations. Our results confirmed the predictions. Results are discussed in terms of their potential implications.
KW - Art perception
KW - Eye movements
KW - Salience
KW - Visual attention
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79952814127&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s12559-010-9062-3
DO - 10.1007/s12559-010-9062-3
M3 - Article
SN - 1866-9956
VL - 3
SP - 25
EP - 36
JO - Cognitive Computation
JF - Cognitive Computation
IS - 1
ER -