2024/09/10 by Annika Garlichs, Mark Lustig, Matthias Gamer +1 · 1 voice
Neuroscience · Computer Science · #Face Recognition and Perception #Visual Attention and Saliency Detection #Visual perception and processing mechanisms
paper · doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.110920
= 34, each) using cued face morphs containing expected and unexpected facial features, and clear expected and unexpected faces. Participants performed predictive saccades toward expected facial features and fixated expected more often and longer than unexpected features. In face morphs, expected features attracted early eye movements, followed by unexpected features, indicating that top-down as well as bottom-up information drives face sampling. Our results provide compelling evidence that expectations influence face processing by guiding predictive and early eye movements toward anticipated informative locations, supporting predictive processing.