This article analyzes known data on the systemic functions of vision, such as discrimination and recognition of visual objects, visual seeking, assessment of the emotional content of scenes, and decision-making in the foveal and peripheral visual fields. Existing hypotheses for the possible mechanisms of functional phenomena occurring in the human peripheral field are discussed. A neurological informatic approach to solving problems of the interaction of foveal and peripheral vision based on inspection trajectories, areas of interest, and return gaze fixations are described. Computer experiments showed that the structure of an inspection trajectory model correlates with the number of return fixations of the “input window” of the model. This suggested that the probability of return fixations could be regarded as a quantitative criterion for identifying the type of attention (focal or spatial) and the moment of attention-switching.
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Translated from Sensornye Sistemy, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 328–339, October–December, 2021. Original article submitted December 14, 2020.
L. N. Podladchikova is deceased.
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Podladchikova, L.N., Shaposhnikov, D.G., Samarin, A.I. et al. Interaction of Foveal and Peripheral Vision on Implementation of Systemic Visual Functions. Neurosci Behav Physi 52, 431–438 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-022-01257-9
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