Tracking multiple fish

0554991 - PSÚ 2023 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Děchtěrenko, Filip - Jakubková, Daniela - Lukavský, Jiří - Howard, Ch.J.
Tracking multiple fish.
PeerJ. Roč. 10, březen (2022), č. článku 13031. ISSN 2167-8359. E-ISSN 2167-8359
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA19-07690S
Institutional support: RVO:68081740
Keywords : attention * ecological validity * multiple object tracking * fish * modelling
OECD category: Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Impact factor: 2.7, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://peerj.com/articles/13031/

Although the Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) task is a widely used experimental method for studying divided attention, tracking objects in the real world usually looks different. For example, in the real world, objects are usually clearly distinguishable from each other and also possess different movement patterns. One such case is tracking groups of creatures, such as tracking fish in an aquarium. We used movies of fish in an aquarium and measured general tracking performance in this task (Experiment 1). In Experiment 2, we compared tracking accuracy within-subjects in fish tracking, tracking typical MOT stimuli, and in a third condition using standard MOT uniform objects which possessed movement patterns similar to the real fish. This third condition was added to further examine the impact of different motion characteristics on tracking performance. Results within a Bayesian framework showed that tracking real fish shares similarities with tracking simple objects in a typical laboratory MOT task. Furthermore, we observed a close relationship between performance in both laboratory MOT tasks (typical and fish-like) and real fish tracking, suggesting that the commonly used laboratory MOT task possesses a good level of ecological validity.

Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0329918