Periodic Reporting for period 2 - INDIVISUAL (Individual differences in human gaze behaviour and the visual system)
Período documentado: 2021-07-01 hasta 2022-12-31
We further found that pre-literate children look much less at text than adults and have a strong tendency to focus on hands. This qualifies previous results on the heritability of individual gaze biases – massive visual experience, like learning to read, can permanently modulate individual gaze. At the same time, we found that the strong propensity of faces to attract fast saccades does not extend to artificial features we have much experience with, like glasses or masks, but rather seems driven by the eye region. This suggests the mechanism steering eyes towards faces uses simple pictorial cues and its plasticity is rather limited.
Finally, we developed a ‘quick test’ of individual gaze and implemented it in a clinical setting, as well as in an ‘eyetracking booth’ in a public museum. So far, over 2,000 museum visitors, as well as children with ADHD and autism volunteered to take the test.