School of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2020 Jun;35(6):495-502. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.01.003. Epub 2020 Feb 18.
To survive and pass on their genes, animals must perform many tasks that affect their fitness, such as mate-choice, foraging, and predator avoidance. The ability to make rapid decisions is dependent on the information that needs to be sampled from the environment and how it is processed. We highlight the need to consider visual attention within sensory ecology and advocate the use of eye-tracking methods to better understand how animals prioritise the sampling of information from their environments prior to making a goal-directed decision. We consider ways in which eye-tracking can be used to determine how animals work within attentional constraints and how environmental pressures may exploit these limitations.
为了生存和传递基因，动物必须执行许多影响其适应度的任务，如选择配偶、觅食和避免捕食者。快速决策的能力取决于需要从环境中采样的信息以及如何处理这些信息。我们强调需要在感觉生态学中考虑视觉注意力，并提倡使用眼动追踪方法来更好地理解动物在做出目标导向决策之前如何优先从环境中采样信息。我们考虑了眼动追踪可以用来确定动物如何在注意力限制内工作以及环境压力如何利用这些限制的方式。
