Department of Engineering, University of Leicester Leicester, UK.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2011 Sep 12;5:98. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00098. eCollection 2011.
We describe the pattern of fixations of subjects looking at figurative and abstract paintings from different artists (Molina, Mondrian, Rembrandt, della Francesca) and at modified versions in which different aspects of these art pieces were altered with simple digital manipulations. We show that the fixations of the subjects followed some general common principles (e.g., being attracted to saliency regions) but with a large variability for the figurative paintings, according to the subject's personal appreciation and knowledge. In particular, we found different gazing patterns depending on whether the subject saw the original or the modified version of the painting first. We conclude that the study of gazing patterns obtained by using the eye-tracker technology gives a useful approach to quantify how subjects observe art.
我们描述了受试者观看不同艺术家（莫利纳、蒙德里安、伦勃朗、德拉·弗朗西斯卡）的具象画和抽象画以及经过简单数字处理后改变了这些艺术作品某些方面的修改版本时的注视模式。我们表明，受试者的注视遵循一些一般的共同原则（例如，被显著区域吸引），但对于具象画则存在很大的可变性，这取决于受试者的个人喜好和知识。特别是，我们发现了不同的注视模式，这取决于受试者是先看到原始版本还是修改后的版本。我们得出结论，使用眼动追踪技术研究注视模式为量化受试者观察艺术的方式提供了一种有用的方法。
