Looking for a face in the crowd: Fixation-related potentials in an eye-movement visual search task

Despite the compelling contribution of the study of event related potentials (ERPs) and eye movements to cognitive neuroscience, these two approaches have largely evolved independently. We designed an eye-movement visual search paradigm that allowed us to concurrently record EEG and eye movements wh...

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Autores principales: Kaunitz, L.N., Kamienkowski, J.E., Varatharajah, A., Sigman, M., Quiroga, R.Q., Ison, M.J.
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spelling todo:paper_10538119_v89_n_p297_Kaunitz2023-10-03T16:00:39Z Looking for a face in the crowd: Fixation-related potentials in an eye-movement visual search task Kaunitz, L.N. Kamienkowski, J.E. Varatharajah, A. Sigman, M. Quiroga, R.Q. Ison, M.J. EEG Faces Natural scenes Oddball Visual search adult article cognition controlled study electroencephalogram event related potential eye fixation eye movement eye tracking female human human experiment male neuroscience normal human priority journal saccadic eye movement Article electroencephalography eye tracking latent period task performance visual discrimination visual information visual masking visual stimulation EEG Faces Natural scenes Oddball Visual search Adult Brain Electroencephalography Evoked Potentials, Visual Face Female Fixation, Ocular Humans Male Photic Stimulation Saccades Visual Perception Young Adult Despite the compelling contribution of the study of event related potentials (ERPs) and eye movements to cognitive neuroscience, these two approaches have largely evolved independently. We designed an eye-movement visual search paradigm that allowed us to concurrently record EEG and eye movements while subjects were asked to find a hidden target face in a crowded scene with distractor faces. Fixation event-related potentials (fERPs) to target and distractor stimuli showed the emergence of robust sensory components associated with the perception of stimuli and cognitive components associated with the detection of target faces. We compared those components with the ones obtained in a control task at fixation: qualitative similarities as well as differences in terms of scalp topography and latency emerged between the two. By using single trial analyses, fixations to target and distractors could be decoded from the EEG signals above chance level in 11 out of 12 subjects. Our results show that EEG signatures related to cognitive behavior develop across spatially unconstrained exploration of natural scenes and provide a first step towards understanding the mechanisms of target detection during natural search. © 2013 The Authors. Fil:Kamienkowski, J.E. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil:Sigman, M. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil:Ison, M.J. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_10538119_v89_n_p297_Kaunitz
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topic EEG
Faces
Natural scenes
Oddball
Visual search
adult
article
cognition
controlled study
electroencephalogram
event related potential
eye fixation
eye movement
eye tracking
female
human
human experiment
male
neuroscience
normal human
priority journal
saccadic eye movement
Article
electroencephalography
eye tracking
latent period
task performance
visual discrimination
visual information
visual masking
visual stimulation
EEG
Faces
Natural scenes
Oddball
Visual search
Adult
Brain
Electroencephalography
Evoked Potentials, Visual
Face
Female
Fixation, Ocular
Humans
Male
Photic Stimulation
Saccades
Visual Perception
Young Adult
spellingShingle EEG
Faces
Natural scenes
Oddball
Visual search
adult
article
cognition
controlled study
electroencephalogram
event related potential
eye fixation
eye movement
eye tracking
female
human
human experiment
male
neuroscience
normal human
priority journal
saccadic eye movement
Article
electroencephalography
eye tracking
latent period
task performance
visual discrimination
visual information
visual masking
visual stimulation
EEG
Faces
Natural scenes
Oddball
Visual search
Adult
Brain
Electroencephalography
Evoked Potentials, Visual
Face
Female
Fixation, Ocular
Humans
Male
Photic Stimulation
Saccades
Visual Perception
Young Adult
Kaunitz, L.N.
Kamienkowski, J.E.
Varatharajah, A.
Sigman, M.
Quiroga, R.Q.
Ison, M.J.
Looking for a face in the crowd: Fixation-related potentials in an eye-movement visual search task
topic_facet EEG
Faces
Natural scenes
Oddball
Visual search
adult
article
cognition
controlled study
electroencephalogram
event related potential
eye fixation
eye movement
eye tracking
female
human
human experiment
male
neuroscience
normal human
priority journal
saccadic eye movement
Article
electroencephalography
eye tracking
latent period
task performance
visual discrimination
visual information
visual masking
visual stimulation
EEG
Faces
Natural scenes
Oddball
Visual search
Adult
Brain
Electroencephalography
Evoked Potentials, Visual
Face
Female
Fixation, Ocular
Humans
Male
Photic Stimulation
Saccades
Visual Perception
Young Adult
description Despite the compelling contribution of the study of event related potentials (ERPs) and eye movements to cognitive neuroscience, these two approaches have largely evolved independently. We designed an eye-movement visual search paradigm that allowed us to concurrently record EEG and eye movements while subjects were asked to find a hidden target face in a crowded scene with distractor faces. Fixation event-related potentials (fERPs) to target and distractor stimuli showed the emergence of robust sensory components associated with the perception of stimuli and cognitive components associated with the detection of target faces. We compared those components with the ones obtained in a control task at fixation: qualitative similarities as well as differences in terms of scalp topography and latency emerged between the two. By using single trial analyses, fixations to target and distractors could be decoded from the EEG signals above chance level in 11 out of 12 subjects. Our results show that EEG signatures related to cognitive behavior develop across spatially unconstrained exploration of natural scenes and provide a first step towards understanding the mechanisms of target detection during natural search. © 2013 The Authors.
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author Kaunitz, L.N.
Kamienkowski, J.E.
Varatharajah, A.
Sigman, M.
Quiroga, R.Q.
Ison, M.J.
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Kamienkowski, J.E.
Varatharajah, A.
Sigman, M.
Quiroga, R.Q.
Ison, M.J.
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title Looking for a face in the crowd: Fixation-related potentials in an eye-movement visual search task
title_short Looking for a face in the crowd: Fixation-related potentials in an eye-movement visual search task
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