Cognitive and Brain Sciences Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel.
Psychology Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
J Vis. 2023 Feb 1;23(2):9. doi: 10.1167/jov.23.2.9.
Humans differ in the amount of time they direct their gaze toward different types of stimuli. Individuals' preferences are known to be reliable and can predict various cognitive and affective processes. However, it remains unclear whether humans are aware of their visual gaze preferences and are able to report it. In this study, across three different tasks and without prior warning, participants were asked to estimate the amount of time they had looked at a certain visual content (e.g., faces or texts) at the end of each experiment. The findings show that people can report accurately their visual gaze preferences. The implications are discussed in the context of visual perception, metacognition, and the development of applied diagnostic tools based on eye tracking.
人类在注视不同类型刺激的时间上存在差异。个体的偏好是已知的，并且可以预测各种认知和情感过程。然而，目前尚不清楚人类是否意识到自己的视觉注视偏好，以及是否能够报告这种偏好。在这项研究中，在三个不同的任务中，参与者在没有事先警告的情况下，被要求在每次实验结束时估计他们看某一特定视觉内容（例如面孔或文本）的时间量。研究结果表明，人们可以准确报告自己的视觉注视偏好。这些发现对于视觉感知、元认知以及基于眼动追踪的应用诊断工具的发展具有重要意义。
