?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Gaze+and+informativeness+during+category+learning%3A%0D%0AEvidence+for+an+inverse+relation&rft.creator=Vigo+%2C+Dr.++Ronaldo+&rft.creator=Zeigler%2C+Derek+&rft.creator=Halsey+%2C+Phillip+&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Perceptual+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Psychophysics&rft.description=In+what+follows%2C+we+explore+the+general+relationship+between+eye+gaze+during+a+category+learning+task+and+the+information+conveyed+by+each+member+of+the+learned+category.+To+understand+the+nature+of+this+relationship+empirically%2C+we+used+eye+tracking+during+a+novel+object+classification+paradigm.+Results+suggest+that+the+average+fixation+time+per+object+during+learning+is+inversely+proportional+to+the+amount+of+information+that+object+conveys+about+its+category.+This+inverse+relationship+may+seem+counterintuitive%3B+however%2C+objects+that+have+a+high+information+value+are+inherently+more+representative+of+their+category.+Therefore%2C+their+generality+captures+the+essence+of+the+category+structure+relative+to+less+representative+objects.+As+such%2C+it+takes+relatively+less+time+to+process+these+objects+than+their+less+informative+companions.+We+use+a+general+information+measure+referred+to+as+representational+information+theory+(Vigo%2C+2011a%2C+2013a)+to+articulate+and+interpret+the+results+from+our+experiment+and+compare+its+predictions+to+those+of+three+models+of+prototypicality.&rft.publisher=Taylor+and+Francis+&rft.date=2013-06-03&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F9077%2F1%2FVigo-Zeigler-Halsey-2013.pdf&rft.identifier=++Vigo+%2C+Dr.+Ronaldo++and+Zeigler%2C+Derek++and+Halsey+%2C+Phillip+++(2013)+Gaze+and+informativeness+during+category+learning%3A+Evidence+for+an+inverse+relation.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F9077%2F