Global Saccadic Eye Movements Characterise Artists’ Visual Attention While Drawing

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Park, Suhyun; Williams, Louis and Chamberlain, Rebecca. 2022. Global Saccadic Eye Movements Characterise Artists’ Visual Attention While Drawing. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 40(2), pp. 228-244. ISSN 0276-2374 [Article]

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Previous research has shown that artists employ flexible attentional strategies during offline perceptual tasks (Chamberlain et al., 2018; Chamberlain & Wagemans, 2015). The current study explored visual processing online, by tracking the eye movements of artists and non-artists (n=65) while they produced representational drawings of photographic stimuli. The findings revealed that it is possible to differentiate artists from non-artists on the basis of the relative amount of global-to-local saccadic eye movements they make when looking at the target stimulus while drawing, but not in a preparatory free viewing phase. Results indicated that these differences in eye movements are not specifically related to representational drawing ability, and may be a feature of artistic ability more broadly. This eye movement analysis technique may be used in future research to characterise the dynamics of attentional shifts in eye movements while artists are carrying out a range of artistic tasks.

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https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374211001811