Zoom behavior during visual search modulates pupil diameter and reflects adaptive control states
Adaptive gain theory proposes that the dynamic shifts between exploration and exploitation control states are modulated by the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system and reflected in tonic and phasic pupil diameter. This study tested predictions of this theory in the context of a societally important...
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| author | Tad T. Brunyé Trafton Drew Kathleen F. Kerr Hannah Shucard Kate Powell Donald L. Weaver Joann G. Elmore |
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| description | Adaptive gain theory proposes that the dynamic shifts between exploration and exploitation control states are modulated by the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system and reflected in tonic and phasic pupil diameter. This study tested predictions of this theory in the context of a societally important visual search task: the review and interpretation of digital whole slide images of breast biopsies by physicians (pathologists). As these medical images are searched, pathologists encounter difficult visual features and intermittently zoom in to examine features of interest. We propose that tonic and phasic pupil diameter changes during image review may correspond to perceived difficulty and dynamic shifts between exploration and exploitation control states. To examine this possibility, we monitored visual search behavior and tonic and phasic pupil diameter while pathologists (N = 89) interpreted 14 digital images of breast biopsy tissue (1,246 total images reviewed). After viewing the images, pathologists provided a diagnosis and rated the level of difficulty of the image. Analyses of tonic pupil diameter examined whether pupil dilation was associated with pathologists’ difficulty ratings, diagnostic accuracy, and experience level. To examine phasic pupil diameter, we parsed continuous visual search data into discrete zoom-in and zoom-out events, including shifts from low to high magnification (e.g., 1× to 10×) and the reverse. Analyses examined whether zoom-in and zoom-out events were associated with phasic pupil diameter change. Results demonstrated that tonic pupil diameter was associated with image difficulty ratings and zoom level, and phasic pupil diameter showed constriction upon zoom-in events, and dilation immediately preceding a zoom-out event. Results are interpreted in the context of adaptive gain theory, information gain theory, and the monitoring and assessment of physicians’ diagnostic interpretive processes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4470d8a4d378459fafd34c9689e94ba52023-03-12T05:32:26ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032023-01-01183Zoom behavior during visual search modulates pupil diameter and reflects adaptive control statesTad T. BrunyéTrafton DrewKathleen F. KerrHannah ShucardKate PowellDonald L. WeaverJoann G. ElmoreAdaptive gain theory proposes that the dynamic shifts between exploration and exploitation control states are modulated by the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system and reflected in tonic and phasic pupil diameter. This study tested predictions of this theory in the context of a societally important visual search task: the review and interpretation of digital whole slide images of breast biopsies by physicians (pathologists). As these medical images are searched, pathologists encounter difficult visual features and intermittently zoom in to examine features of interest. We propose that tonic and phasic pupil diameter changes during image review may correspond to perceived difficulty and dynamic shifts between exploration and exploitation control states. To examine this possibility, we monitored visual search behavior and tonic and phasic pupil diameter while pathologists (N = 89) interpreted 14 digital images of breast biopsy tissue (1,246 total images reviewed). After viewing the images, pathologists provided a diagnosis and rated the level of difficulty of the image. Analyses of tonic pupil diameter examined whether pupil dilation was associated with pathologists’ difficulty ratings, diagnostic accuracy, and experience level. To examine phasic pupil diameter, we parsed continuous visual search data into discrete zoom-in and zoom-out events, including shifts from low to high magnification (e.g., 1× to 10×) and the reverse. Analyses examined whether zoom-in and zoom-out events were associated with phasic pupil diameter change. Results demonstrated that tonic pupil diameter was associated with image difficulty ratings and zoom level, and phasic pupil diameter showed constriction upon zoom-in events, and dilation immediately preceding a zoom-out event. Results are interpreted in the context of adaptive gain theory, information gain theory, and the monitoring and assessment of physicians’ diagnostic interpretive processes.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9997932/?tool=EBI |
| spellingShingle | Tad T. Brunyé Trafton Drew Kathleen F. Kerr Hannah Shucard Kate Powell Donald L. Weaver Joann G. Elmore Zoom behavior during visual search modulates pupil diameter and reflects adaptive control states PLoS ONE |
| title | Zoom behavior during visual search modulates pupil diameter and reflects adaptive control states |
| title_full | Zoom behavior during visual search modulates pupil diameter and reflects adaptive control states |
| title_fullStr | Zoom behavior during visual search modulates pupil diameter and reflects adaptive control states |
| title_full_unstemmed | Zoom behavior during visual search modulates pupil diameter and reflects adaptive control states |
| title_short | Zoom behavior during visual search modulates pupil diameter and reflects adaptive control states |
| title_sort | zoom behavior during visual search modulates pupil diameter and reflects adaptive control states |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9997932/?tool=EBI |
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