The relationship between environmental statistics and predictive gaze behaviour during a manual interception task: Eye movements as active inference
dc.contributor.author | Harris, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Vine, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Wilson, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Arthur, T | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-01-02T11:10:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-11-21 | |
dc.date.updated | 2024-01-02T08:07:17Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Human observers are known to frequently act like Bayes-optimal decision-makers. Growing evidence indicates that the deployment of the visual system may similarly be driven by probabilistic mental models of the environment. We tested whether eye movements during a dynamic interception task were indeed optimised according to Bayesian inference principles. Forty-one participants intercepted oncoming balls in a virtual reality racquetball task across five counterbalanced conditions in which the relative probability of the ball’s onset location was manipulated. Analysis of pre-onset gaze positions indicated that eye position tracked the true distribution of onset location, suggesting that the gaze system spontaneously adhered to environmental statistics. Eye movements did not, however, seek to minimise the distance between the target and foveal vision according to an optimal probabilistic model of the world and instead often reflected a ‘best guess’ about onset location. Trial-to-trial changes in gaze position were, however, found to be better explained by Bayesian learning models (hierarchical Gaussian filter) than associative learning models. Additionally, parameters relating to the precision of beliefs and prediction errors extracted from the participant-wise models were related to both task-evoked pupil dilations and variability in gaze positions, providing further evidence that probabilistic context was reflected in spontaneous gaze dynamics. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Leverhulme Trust | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 1-17 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 21 November 2023 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/s42113-023-00190-5 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/134863 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0003-3880-3856 (Harris, David) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://osf.io/tgx6r/ | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2023. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Predictive processing | en_GB |
dc.subject | Eye tracking | en_GB |
dc.subject | Gaze | en_GB |
dc.subject | Bayesian | en_GB |
dc.subject | Interception | en_GB |
dc.subject | Computational | en_GB |
dc.title | The relationship between environmental statistics and predictive gaze behaviour during a manual interception task: Eye movements as active inference | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2024-01-02T11:10:10Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2522-0861 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from Springer via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.description | Data Availability: All relevant data and code is available online from: https://osf.io/tgx6r/. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2522-087X | |
dc.identifier.journal | Computational Brain & Behavior | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Computational Brain & Behavior | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2023-11-02 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2023-11-21 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2024-01-02T11:04:37Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2024-01-02T11:10:16Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2023-11-21 |
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