Art expertise reduces influence of visual salience on fixation in viewing abstract-paintings.

When viewing a painting, artists perceive more information from the painting on the basis of their experience and knowledge than art novices do. This difference can be reflected in eye scan paths during viewing of paintings. Distributions of scan paths of artists are different from those of novices...

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Main Authors: Naoko Koide, Takatomi Kubo, Satoshi Nishida, Tomohiro Shibata, Kazushi Ikeda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4319974?pdf=render