El Haj Mohamad, Moustafa Ahmed A
CHU Nantes, Clinical Gerontology Department, Bd. Jacques Monod, 44093 Nantes, France.
LPPL-Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire, Faculté de Psychologie, Université de Nantes, Chemin de la Censive du Tertre, BP 81227, CEDEX 3, 44312 Nantes, France.
Vision (Basel). 2024 May 10;8(2):32. doi: 10.3390/vision8020032.
Research has suggested that near future events are typically viewed from a first-person (an own-eyes, also known as field) perspective while distant future events are typically viewed from a third-person (an observer) perspective. We investigated whether these distinct mental perspectives would be accompanied by distinct eye movement activities. We invited participants to imagine near and distant future events while their eye movements (i.e., scan path) were recorded by eye-tracking glasses. Analysis demonstrated fewer but longer fixations for near future thinking than for distant future thinking. Analysis also demonstrated more "field" mental visual perspective responses for near than for distant future thinking. The long fixations during near future thinking may mirror a mental visual exploration involving processing of a more complex visual representation compared with distant future thinking. By demonstrating how near future thinking triggers both "field" responses and long fixations, our study demonstrates how the temporality of future thinking triggers both distinct mental imagery and eye movement patterns.
研究表明，人们通常从第一人称（自己的视角，也称为实地视角）看待近期事件，而从第三人称（观察者视角）看待远期事件。我们研究了这些不同的心理视角是否会伴随着不同的眼球运动活动。我们邀请参与者想象近期和远期事件，同时用眼动追踪眼镜记录他们的眼球运动（即扫描路径）。分析表明，与远期思考相比，近期思考的注视次数更少但持续时间更长。分析还表明，与远期思考相比，近期思考有更多的“实地”心理视觉视角反应。与远期思考相比，近期思考期间的长时间注视可能反映了一种涉及处理更复杂视觉表征的心理视觉探索。通过展示近期思考如何引发“实地”反应和长时间注视，我们的研究表明了未来思考的时间性如何引发不同的心理意象和眼球运动模式。
