Dissociating eye-movements and comprehension during film viewing
dc.contributor.author | Hutson, John | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-09-20T18:06:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-09-20T18:06:55Z | |
dc.date.graduationmonth | December | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2016-12-01 | en_US |
dc.date.published | 2016 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Film is a ubiquitous medium. However, the process by which we comprehend film narratives is not well understood. Reading research has shown a strong connection between eye-movements and comprehension. In four experiments we tested whether the eye-movement and comprehension relationship held for films. This was done by manipulating viewer comprehension by starting participants at different points in a film, and then tracking their eyes. Overall, the manipulation created large differences in comprehension, but only found small difference in eye-movements. In a condition of the final experiment, a task manipulation was designed to prioritize different stimulus features. This task manipulation created large differences in eye-movements when compared to participants freely viewing the clip. These results indicate that with the implicit task of narrative comprehension, top-down comprehension processes have little effect on eye-movements. To allow for strong, volitional top-down control of eye-movements in film, task manipulations need to make features that are important to comprehension irrelevant to the task. | en_US |
dc.description.advisor | Lester Loschky | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Science | en_US |
dc.description.department | Department of Psychological Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.level | Masters | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2097/34136 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Kansas State University | en |
dc.subject | Visual Cognition | en_US |
dc.subject | Eye-Movements | en_US |
dc.subject | Event Cognition | en_US |
dc.subject | Narrative Comprehension | en_US |
dc.title | Dissociating eye-movements and comprehension during film viewing | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |