Object identification without foveal vision: Evidence from an artificial scotoma paradigm

被引:66
作者
Henderson, JM
McClure, KK
Pierce, S
Schrock, G
机构
[1] Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
[2] Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing
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PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS | 1997年 / 59卷 / 03期
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10.3758/BF03211901
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the degree to which foveal information is necessary for object identification, To explore this question, we used an artificial moving scotoma para digm to eliminate a region of a currently viewed display in real time as a function of eye position. Subjects examined linear arrays of four line drawings of objects while their eye movements were recorded, Immediately following each array, a test probe was presented to test the degree to which the subject had identified those objects, Three conditions were compared, one in which a central foveal scotoma was created, one in which an extrafoveal scotoma was created, and a control condition in which the scotoma was absent. The main result was that identification accuracy was very good, but eye-movement behavior was disrupted when a foveal scotoma was present. These results suggest that foveal information is not necessary but is beneficial for perceptual encoding during object identification; the loss of foveal information can be overcome as long as compensatory extrafoveal processing is possible.
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