The Eye-Movements Study On The Effect Of Cognitive Style And Object-Context Relations On Scene Perception

In this article,36field dependence undergraduates and independence undergraduates'perception to object-context relations was investigated using a common eye-movement paradigm. we are concerned with the role of object-context relations and cognitive style on scene perception.Through embedded-figure-test way,18field dependent and18field independent undergraduates are chosen from the university students. Experimental design is three mixed experimental design including two factors repeated. That is2(field dependence/independence)×2(congruent object-context/incongruent object-context)×2(object/context).The first factors is called the between-subjects design, the second factors and the third factors are called the within-subjects design. The full stimulus array consisted of36full-color digitized imagedivided into two sets of stimuli to correspond to two conditions: congruent object-context and incongruent object-context.The experiment indicated that:Field dependence individuals and independence individuals scanned both objects and contexts,but more fixations and fixation counts of objects than contexts, more fixations and fixations shifts of incongruent than congruent scenes,equal fixations of objects for incongruent and congruent, but more fixations of context for incongruent than congruent.Field dependence individuals showed more fixations shifts than independence individuals. Field independence individuals showed equal fixation shifts of incongruent and congruent scenes, While field dependence individuals showed more fixations shifts of incongruent than congruent scenes. These findings for location, number, and order of eye movements indicate that object-context relations play a dynamic role in the development and allocation of attention.