TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rösler, Lara
A1  - Rubo, Marius
A1  - Gamer, Matthias
T1  - Artificial faces predict gaze allocation in complex dynamic scenes
JF  - Frontiers in Psychology
N2  - Both low-level physical saliency and social information, as presented by human heads or bodies, are known to drive gaze behavior in free-viewing tasks. Researchers have previously made use of a great variety of face stimuli, ranging from photographs of real humans to schematic faces, frequently without systematically differentiating between the two. In the current study, we used a Generalized Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) approach to investigate to what extent schematic artificial faces can predict gaze when they are presented alone or in competition with real human faces. Relative differences in predictive power became apparent, while GLMMs suggest substantial effects for real and artificial faces in all conditions. Artificial faces were accordingly less predictive than real human faces but still contributed significantly to gaze allocation. These results help to further our understanding of how social information guides gaze in complex naturalistic scenes.
KW  - social attention
KW  - faces
KW  - physical saliency
KW  - visual perception
KW  - naturalistic scenes
KW  - eye movements
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-193024
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 10
IS  - 2877
ER  -