Toward the problem of physical and semantic component of the form during eye scanning

Abstract

In subjects inspecting random polygonal shapes eye movements were recorded by means of a corneal reflection technique and computer processed. Eye fixations were mostly located around angles. Distribution of fixations over different angles was unhomogenous. Angular rotation changed both semantic meaning of the shapes and the eye fixation distribution. Sequential Markov dependence was found only in cases when semantic interpretation of the shapes was reported by the subjects and was absent when the shapes were perceived as meaning-less geometrical patterns.