2016 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report

The effects of visual attention and visual context on image memorability

Research Project

Project/Area Number	15H06100
Research Institution	The University of Tokyo
Principal Investigator	李キ東京大学, 大学院人文社会系研究科(文学部), 助教 (30757711)
Project Period (FY)	2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
Keywords	image memorability / spatial context
Outline of Annual Research Achievements	In FY 2016, experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of spatial context on image memorability. The meaningfulness of spatial context was manipulated by using intact images (meaningful context) and shuffled versions of these images (meaningless context). The results revealed that when intact images were presented as irrelevant background, search performance was significantly worse for highly-memorable-background trials compared to less-memorable-background trials, indicating that attention was captured by highly memorable images. However, this effect disappeared when background images were shuffled scenes. This has the important implication that spatial context may play an important role in determining image memorability.
Research Progress Status	28年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。
Strategy for Future Research Activity	28年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。