Kollenda Diana, Reher Anna-Sophia, de Haas Benjamin
Experimental Psychology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany.
Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Marburg and Giessen, Germany.
Sci Rep. 2025 Mar 19;15(1):9443. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-94056-4.
Do different people looking at the same scene perceive individual versions of what's in front of them? If perception is individual, which mechanisms mediate our particular view of the world? Recent findings have shown systematic observer differences in gaze, but it is unclear whether individual fixation biases translate to divergent impressions of the same scene. Here, we find systematic differences in the scene descriptions individual observers provide for identical complex scenes. Crucially, observer differences in fixation patterns predicted pairwise differences in scene descriptions, particularly the use of nouns, even for out-of-sample images. Part of this could be explained by the individual tendency to fixate text and people predicting corresponding description references. Our results strongly suggest that subjective scene perception is shaped by individual gaze.
不同的人在观看同一场景时，会感知到眼前事物的不同版本吗？如果感知是因人而异的，那么是哪些机制在介导我们对世界的独特看法呢？最近的研究结果显示，观察者在注视方面存在系统性差异，但尚不清楚个体的注视偏差是否会转化为对同一场景的不同印象。在此，我们发现个体观察者针对相同复杂场景所提供的场景描述存在系统性差异。至关重要的是，注视模式上的观察者差异预测了场景描述中的两两差异，尤其是名词的使用，即使对于样本外的图像也是如此。部分原因可能是个体对文本和人物的注视倾向会预测相应的描述参照。我们的结果有力地表明，主观场景感知是由个体注视塑造的。
