Predicting attentional allocation in real‐world environments: The need to investigate crossmodal semantic guidance

K Wegner‐Clemens, GL Malcolm… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Real‐world environments are multisensory, meaningful, and highly complex. To parse these
environments in a highly efficient manner, a subset of this information must be selected both …

Pathways for Naturalistic Looking Behavior in Primate II. Superior Colliculus Integrates Parallel Top-down and Bottom-up Inputs

R Veale, M Takahashi - Neuroscience, 2024 - Elsevier
Volitional signals for gaze control are provided by multiple parallel pathways converging on
the midbrain superior colliculus (SC), whose deeper layers output to the brainstem gaze …

Saccadic trajectories deviate toward or away from optimally informative visual features

S Castellotti, M Szinte, MM Del Viva, A Montagnini - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
The saccades' path is influenced by visual distractors, making their trajectory curve away or
toward them. Previous research suggested that the more salient the distractor, the more …

Assessing visual saliency of informative local features with psychophysics and eye movements

S Castellotti - 2023 - flore.unifi.it
Under fast viewing conditions, the visual system extracts salient and simplified
representations of complex visual scenes. Eye movements optimize such visual analysis …