We live in a rich, three dimensional world with complex arrangements of meaningful objects.
For decades, however, theories of visual attention and perception have been based on …

We see the world in scenes, where visual objects occur in rich surroundings, often
embedded in a typical context with other related objects. How does the human brain analyse …

Eye movements are now widely used to investigate cognitive processes during reading,
scene perception, and visual search. In this article, research on the following topics is …

Although the study of visual perception has made more progress in the past 40 years than
any other area of cognitive science, there remain major disagreements as to how closely …

In the real world, objects never occur in isolation; they co-vary with other objects and
particular environments, providing a rich source of contextual associations to be exploited by …

▪ Abstract Three areas of high-level scene perception research are reviewed. The first
concerns the role of eye movements in scene perception, focusing on the influence of …

Eye movements were recorded while participants viewed line-drawing pictures of natural
scenes in preparation for a memory test (Experiment 1) or to find a target object (Experiment …

The recent study of overt attention during complex scene viewing has emphasized
explaining gaze behavior in terms of image properties and image salience independently of …

Visual context information constrains what to expect and where to look, facilitating search for
and recognition of objects embedded in complex displays. This article reviews a new …

We evaluate the applicability of a biologically-motivated algorithm to select visually-salient
regions of interest in video streams for multiply-foveated video compression. Regions are …