Figure 10
From: Introducing a Bayesian model of selective attention based on active inference
Empirical results and simulations (A) The left panels report the proportion of fixations on objects and heads when Yarbus’ visual search task is performed by typically developing (TD) adults and people with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) under the instructions estimate the material circumstances of the family (Task A) and estimate how long the unexpected visitor has been away (Task B). The panels on the right show the simulated proportion of fixations using the MDP model. (B) Healthy people performed a face identification task under different conditions, namely threat of shock (threat) and free from threat of shock (safe). In this task, either a happy or a fearful face is shown on a computer screen. The participants are asked to identify the face as either happy or fearful as quickly as they can. The left panel shows the empirical reaction times (i.e., time it took to identify the facial emotion), whereas the right panel shows the simulated decision times using the MDP model (i.e., the number of facial features the agent attended before identifying the face). See the main text for details. See Benson et al.35 and Robinson et al.37 for the originals of the figures on the left panels of A and B in this figure, respectively. These figures were reproduced with permission from Elsevier and the rights to use these materials have been obtained through Copyright Clearance Centre.
