FVS 2.0: A unifying framework for understanding the factors of visual-attentional processing.

Abstract

Across a broad range of stimulus types and tasks (16 stimulus types × 26 tasks, 1744 observers in total), the present study employed an individual-item differences analysis to extract the factors of visual-attentional processing. Three orthogonal factors were identified and they can be summarized as an FVS 2.0 framework: featural, visual, and spatial strengths. Apart from one exception (low-level motion), the FVS 2.0 framework accounts for the vast majority (95.4%) of the variances in the 25 tasks. Therefore, the three straightforward factors provide a unifying framework for understanding the relationship between stimulus types as well as those between tasks. Combining these and other related results, the role of preattentive features seems to be rather different from the traditional view: visual features are general-purpose, exclusive, innate, constancy-based, and keyword-like. A GEICK conjecture is proposed which suggests that the features are conscious-level keywords generated by the specific brain area of V4 and/or IT and then used by all other brain areas.

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“…They found 24 different distinct emotions which could be clustered broadly around different categories such as valence, safety, and fairness. Huang (2022) proposed the FVS model for how people perceive visual stimuli, emphasizing three main factors: featural strength (how much a stimulus has preattentive features such as colors or shapes), visual strength (whether a stimulus is seen in high contrast against a background), and spatial strength (how much a specific stimulus would be represented in a larger array of different types of similar stimuli). Rentfrow et al (2011) focused on the different ways that we perceive media and entertainment (such as music, film, or literature) and found two higher-order factors (Lowbrow and Highbrow) with five lower-order dimensions (Aesthetic, Cerebral, Communal, Dark, and Thrilling).…”