Monday, 30 May 2011

New paper - Eye guidance in natural vision: Reinterpreting salience

Tatler, B. W., Hayhoe, M. M., Land, M. F., & Ballard, D. H. (2011). Eye guidance in natural vision: Reinterpreting salience. Journal of Vision, 11(5):5, 1–23, http://www.journalofvision.org/content/11/5/5, doi:10.1167/11.5.5.

This article is an invited review for the 10th anniversary edition of the Journal of Vision. In it we review current models and understanding of scene viewing and consider the limitations of using these models to understand eye guidance in the context of natural behavioural settings. We highlight the principles of selection that any model of natural eye guidance needs to be able to explain and discuss the emerging theoretical framework for gaze allocation on the basis of reward maximization and uncertainty reduction.