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How Do We See Art: An Eye-Tracker Study

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2011
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Title
How Do We See Art: An Eye-Tracker Study
Published in
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2011
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00098
Pubmed ID
Authors

Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Carlos Pedreira

Abstract

We describe the pattern of fixations of subjects looking at figurative and abstract paintings from different artists (Molina, Mondrian, Rembrandt, della Francesca) and at modified versions in which different aspects of these art pieces were altered with simple digital manipulations. We show that the fixations of the subjects followed some general common principles (e.g., being attracted to saliency regions) but with a large variability for the figurative paintings, according to the subject's personal appreciation and knowledge. In particular, we found different gazing patterns depending on whether the subject saw the original or the modified version of the painting first. We conclude that the study of gazing patterns obtained by using the eye-tracker technology gives a useful approach to quantify how subjects observe art.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 3 2%
United Kingdom 2 1%
France 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Argentina 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 163 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 35 20%
Student > Master 30 17%
Researcher 25 14%
Student > Bachelor 21 12%
Professor 16 9%
Other 25 14%
Unknown 21 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 46 27%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 18 10%
Neuroscience 16 9%
Arts and Humanities 11 6%
Engineering 10 6%
Other 47 27%
Unknown 25 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 48. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 August 2021.
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#846,565
of 24,829,155 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#380
of 7,559 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,863
of 192,153 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#8
of 118 outputs
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