Predicting the Valence of a Scene from Observers' Eye Movements.

Multimedia analysis benefits from understanding the emotional content of a scene in a variety of tasks such as video genre classification and content-based image retrieval. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in applying human bio-signals, particularly eye movements, to recognize the emotional gist of a scene such as its valence. In order to determine the emotional category of images using eye movements, the existing methods often learn a classifier using several features that are extracted from eye movements.

Visual rightward spatial bias varies as a function of age.

Age-related changes in visual spatial biases in children, young adults, and older adults were studied with unilateral and bilateral stimulus conditions in fast-paced linguistic and non-linguistic attention tasks. Only rightward spatial biases were observed. The incidence of the biases changed as a function of age: in childhood and in old age the rightward spatial biases were more common than in young adulthood.

Auditory rightward spatial bias varies as a function of age.

Age-related changes in auditory spatial perception of linguistic and non-linguistic stimuli in participants between 5 and 79 years of age were studied. The results show that the strength of the rightward perceptual bias in linguistic bilateral (dichotic) stimulus condition changes as a function of age. In childhood and old age also other rightward spatial biases were observed in linguistic as well as in non-linguistic stimulus conditions.

The effect of age on attentional modulation in Dichotic listening.

The right-ear advantage (REA) in Dichotic listening (DL) reflects stimulus-driven bottom-up asymmetry in speech processing. The REA can be modified by top-down attentional control. We investigated attentional control in DL task as a function of age.