Gaze dynamics are sensitive to target orienting for working memory encoding in virtual reality.

ABSTRACT: Numerous studies have demonstrated that visuospatial attention is a requirement for successful working memory encoding. It is unknown, however, whether this established relationship manifests in consistent gaze dynamics as people orient their visuospatial attention toward an encoding target when searching for information in naturalistic environments. To test this hypothesis, participants' eye movements were recorded while they searched for and encoded objects in a virtual apartment (Experiment 1). We decomposed gaze into 61 features that capture gaze dynamics and a trained sliding window logistic regression model that has potential for use in real-time systems to predict when participants found target objects for working memory encoding. A model trained on group data successfully predicted

SUBMITTER: Peacock CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8742516 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature