Issue |
EPL
Volume 94, Number 6, June 2011
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Article Number | 68001 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/94/68001 | |
Published online | 08 June 2011 |
Searching and fixating: Scale-invariance vs. characteristic timescales in attentional processes
1
Theory Department, S N Bose National Centre - Block JD Sector III, Salt Lake, Calcutta 700098, India
2
Centre for Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad - Allahabad, India
a
shinde@bose.res.in
b
anita@bose.res.in
c
rkmishra@cbcs.ac.in
Received:
9
February
2011
Accepted:
5
May
2011
In an experiment involving semantic search, the visual movements of sample populations subjected to visual and aural input were tracked in a taskless paradigm. The probability distributions of saccades and fixations were obtained and analyzed. Scale-invariance was observed in the saccadic distributions, while the fixation distributions revealed the presence of a characteristic (attentional) time scale for literate subjects. A detailed analysis of our results suggests that saccadic eye motions are an example of Levy, rather than Brownian, dynamics.
PACS: 89.75.-k – Complex systems / 05.40.-a – Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion / 05.45.Tp – Time series analysis
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