Visuo-spatial and auditory cues in high-level event perception
August 4, 2021·
Vipul Nair
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Abstract
The talk highlighted the role of spatial cognition and visuospatial attributes in everyday human activity, and how these structures shape event segmentation, prediction, and retrieval. Sensitivity to visuospatial organization was framed as a foundational step in event understanding, motivating the use of attentional measures to study event comprehension. Particular emphasis was placed on attentional synchrony, alongside related attention metrics, to analyze selected film scenes through a visuospatial event model. The presentation further reported findings from an in-depth multimodal visuospatial analysis of movie scenes (including head turns, hand actions, and related behavioral cues) correlated with visual attention patterns obtained via eye-tracking. The results differentiated event segments associated with high and low attentional synchrony, characterizing how attention distributions relate to underlying visuospatial features. Overall, the talk illustrated how attentional measures can be used to study scenes with varying visuospatial complexity, revealing how spatial structure guides observer attention in context.
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Methods for In-The-Wild Behavioural Research in Visual Perception Spatial Cognition and Artificial Intelligence Tutorial at Spatial Cognition Conference 2020/1, Riga, Latvia, Aug 2-4, 2021 (Tutorial Spatial Cognition 2020/21)
