Six bottom-up visual modulating areas are valued by observers after having viewed the dalinian image ‘The Invisible Man’: A study based on ocular fixations analyses 

Salvador  Dalí  painted  several  paintings  in  which  there  were  ambiguous  images.  Also  known  as bistable images, paintings like ‘The invisible man’ have the characteristic of having two or more possible perceptions. That is to say that different visual percepts can be perceived while observing this image. In order to observe if six different constituent parts of the ‘invisible man’ have the same level of salience, 69 participants took part in an experiment in which they observed the mentioned dalinian bistable image in front of an eye-tracker device (60Hz.). Eye-movements recordings were analyzed  to  stablish  the  durations  of  ocular  fixations  made  on  the  six  areas  that  were  chosen following  the  criterium  of  having  the  capability  of  operate  as  bottom-up  perceptualmodulating factors. The results show that ocular fixations have a different duration when comparing gazes made on each area. Eyes and hair parts were the more observed ones. It was concluded that there are areas that are more salient when looking at the bistable image in question. This fact can vindicate that constituent aspects of visual stimulus have an influence on the perception of the image itself.

• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2024
• Institución: Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano
• Repositorio: Expeditio: repositorio UTadeo
• OAI Identifier: oai:expeditiorepositorio.utadeo.edu.co:20.500.12010/35840
• Acceso en línea: https://nano-ntp.com/index.php/nano/article/view/1544/1276; http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12010/35840
• Palabra clave: Ambiguous images; Bistable perception; Artistic images; Visual perception
• License: Abierto (Texto Completo)