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Learning in the eyes: specific changes in gaze patterns track explicit and implicit visual learning

View ORCID ProfileJózsef Arató, Constantin A. Rothkopf, József Fiser
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.03.234039
József Arató
1Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest Hungary, Nádor utca 9, Budapest 1051 Hungary
2Center for Cognitive Computation, Central European University, Budapest Hungary, Október 6 utca 7, Budapest 1051 Hungary
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Constantin A. Rothkopf
3Centre for Cognitive Science & Institute of Psychology, Alexanderstrasse 10, Technical University of Darmstadt, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
4Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Ruth-Moufang-Str. 1, Goethe University, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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József Fiser
1Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest Hungary, Nádor utca 9, Budapest 1051 Hungary
2Center for Cognitive Computation, Central European University, Budapest Hungary, Október 6 utca 7, Budapest 1051 Hungary
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Abstract

What is the link between eye movements and sensory learning? Although some theories have argued for a permanent and automatic interaction between what we know and where we look, which continuously modulates human information- gathering behavior during both implicit and explicit learning, there exist surprisingly little evidence supporting such an ongoing interaction. We used a pure form of implicit learning called visual statistical learning and manipulated the explicitness of the task to explore how learning and eye movements interact. During both implicit exploration and explicit visual learning of unknown composite visual scenes, eye movement patterns systematically changed in accordance with the underlying statistical structure of the scenes. Moreover, the degree of change was directly correlated with the amount of knowledge the observers acquired. Our results provide the first evidence for an ongoing and specific interaction between hitherto accumulated knowledge and eye movements during both implicit and explicit learning.

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Learning in the eyes: specific changes in gaze patterns track explicit and implicit visual learning
József Arató, Constantin A. Rothkopf, József Fiser
bioRxiv 2020.08.03.234039; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.03.234039
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Learning in the eyes: specific changes in gaze patterns track explicit and implicit visual learning
József Arató, Constantin A. Rothkopf, József Fiser
bioRxiv 2020.08.03.234039; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.03.234039

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