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Author Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez; M. Carmen Parafita; C. Alejandro Parraga; Markus F. Damian edit   pdf
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  Title Testing alternative theoretical accounts of code-switching: Insights from comparative judgments of adjective noun order Type Journal Article
  Year 2019 Publication International journal of bilingualism: interdisciplinary studies of multilingual behaviour Abbreviated Journal IJB  
  Volume 23 Issue 1 Pages 200-220  
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Spanish and English contrast in adjective–noun word order: for example, brown dress (English) vs. vestido marrón (‘dress brown’, Spanish). According to the Matrix Language model (MLF) word order in code-switched sentences must be compatible with the word order of the matrix language, but working within the minimalist program (MP), Cantone and MacSwan arrived at the descriptive generalization that the position of the noun phrase relative to the adjective is determined by the adjective’s language. Our aim is to evaluate the predictions derived from these two models regarding adjective–noun order in Spanish–English code-switched sentences.
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We contrasted the predictions from both models regarding the acceptability of code-switched sentences with different adjective–noun orders that were compatible with the MP, the MLF, both, or none. Acceptability was assessed in Experiment 1 with a 5-point Likert and in Experiment 2 with a 2-Alternative Forced Choice (2AFC) task.
 
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Author David Berga; Xose R. Fernandez-Vidal; Xavier Otazu; V. Leboran; Xose M. Pardo edit   pdf
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  Title Psychophysical evaluation of individual low-level feature influences on visual attention Type Journal Article
  Year 2019 Publication Vision Research Abbreviated Journal VR  
  Volume 154 Issue Pages 60-79  
  Keywords Visual attention; Psychophysics; Saliency; Task; Context; Contrast; Center bias; Low-level; Synthetic; Dataset  
  Abstract In this study we provide the analysis of eye movement behavior elicited by low-level feature distinctiveness with a dataset of synthetically-generated image patterns. Design of visual stimuli was inspired by the ones used in previous psychophysical experiments, namely in free-viewing and visual searching tasks, to provide a total of 15 types of stimuli, divided according to the task and feature to be analyzed. Our interest is to analyze the influences of low-level feature contrast between a salient region and the rest of distractors, providing fixation localization characteristics and reaction time of landing inside the salient region. Eye-tracking data was collected from 34 participants during the viewing of a 230 images dataset. Results show that saliency is predominantly and distinctively influenced by: 1. feature type, 2. feature contrast, 3. temporality of fixations, 4. task difficulty and 5. center bias. This experimentation proposes a new psychophysical basis for saliency model evaluation using synthetic images.  
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  Notes NEUROBIT; 600.128; 600.120 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ BFO2019a Serial 3274  
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Author David Berga; C. Wloka; JK. Tsotsos edit  url
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  Title Modeling task influences for saccade sequence and visual relevance prediction Type Journal Article
  Year 2019 Publication Journal of Vision Abbreviated Journal JV  
  Volume 19 Issue 10 Pages 106c-106c  
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  Abstract Previous work from Wloka et al. (2017) presented the Selective Tuning Attentive Reference model Fixation Controller (STAR-FC), an active vision model for saccade prediction. Although the model is able to efficiently predict saccades during free-viewing, it is well known that stimulus and task instructions can strongly affect eye movement patterns (Yarbus, 1967). These factors are considered in previous Selective Tuning architectures (Tsotsos and Kruijne, 2014)(Tsotsos, Kotseruba and Wloka, 2016)(Rosenfeld, Biparva & Tsotsos 2017), proposing a way to combine bottom-up and top-down contributions to fixation and saccade programming. In particular, task priming has been shown to be crucial to the deployment of eye movements, involving interactions between brain areas related to goal-directed behavior, working and long-term memory in combination with stimulus-driven eye movement neuronal correlates. Initial theories and models of these influences include (Rao, Zelinsky, Hayhoe and Ballard, 2002)(Navalpakkam and Itti, 2005)(Huang and Pashler, 2007) and show distinct ways to process the task requirements in combination with bottom-up attention. In this study we extend the STAR-FC with novel computational definitions of Long-Term Memory, Visual Task Executive and a Task Relevance Map. With these modules we are able to use textual instructions in order to guide the model to attend to specific categories of objects and/or places in the scene. We have designed our memory model by processing a hierarchy of visual features learned from salient object detection datasets. The relationship between the executive task instructions and the memory representations has been specified using a tree of semantic similarities between the learned features and the object category labels. Results reveal that by using this model, the resulting relevance maps and predicted saccades have a higher probability to fall inside the salient regions depending on the distinct task instructions.  
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Author David Berga; Xavier Otazu; Xose R. Fernandez-Vidal; Victor Leboran; Xose M. Pardo edit  openurl
  Title Generating Synthetic Images for Visual Attention Modeling Type Journal Article
  Year 2019 Publication Perception Abbreviated Journal PER  
  Volume 48 Issue Pages 99  
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Author David Berga; Xavier Otazu edit   pdf
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  Title Modeling Bottom-Up and Top-Down Attention with a Neurodynamic Model of V1 Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication Neurocomputing Abbreviated Journal NEUCOM  
  Volume 417 Issue Pages 270-289  
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  Abstract Previous studies suggested that lateral interactions of V1 cells are responsible, among other visual effects, of bottom-up visual attention (alternatively named visual salience or saliency). Our objective is to mimic these connections with a neurodynamic network of firing-rate neurons in order to predict visual attention. Early visual subcortical processes (i.e. retinal and thalamic) are functionally simulated. An implementation of the cortical magnification function is included to define the retinotopical projections towards V1, processing neuronal activity for each distinct view during scene observation. Novel computational definitions of top-down inhibition (in terms of inhibition of return, oculomotor and selection mechanisms), are also proposed to predict attention in Free-Viewing and Visual Search tasks. Results show that our model outpeforms other biologically inspired models of saliency prediction while predicting visual saccade sequences with the same model. We also show how temporal and spatial characteristics of saccade amplitude and inhibition of return can improve prediction of saccades, as well as how distinct search strategies (in terms of feature-selective or category-specific inhibition) can predict attention at distinct image contexts.  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ BeO2020c Serial 3444  
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