Billington, J orcid.org/0000-0003-0995-8875, Webster, RJ, Sherratt, TN et al. (2 more authors) (2020) The (under)use of eye-tracking in evolutionary ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. TREE2645. ISSN 0169-5347
Abstract
To survive and pass on their genes, animals must perform many tasks that affect their fitness, such as mate-choice, foraging, and predator avoidance. The ability to make rapid decisions is dependent on the information that needs to be sampled from the environment and how it is processed. We highlight the need to consider visual attention within sensory ecology and advocate the use of eye-tracking methods to better understand how animals prioritise the sampling of information from their environments prior to making a goal-directed decision. We consider ways in which eye-tracking can be used to determine how animals work within attentional constraints and how environmental pressures may exploit these limitations.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | attention; vision; sensory ecology; eye-movement; visual search; gaze |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Biological Sciences (Leeds) > School of Biology (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Leverhulme Trust RF-2019-343\10 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 21 Jan 2020 14:58 |
Last Modified: | 18 Feb 2021 01:38 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Elsevier (Cell Press) |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.tree.2020.01.003 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:155842 |
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