{"id":1292,"date":"2023-09-26T15:01:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T18:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/2023\/09\/26\/131-the-psychedelic-gaze-unveiling-eye-movements-during-free-exploration-of-artworks-under-psilocybin\/"},"modified":"2023-09-28T10:07:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T13:07:35","slug":"131-the-psychedelic-gaze-unveiling-eye-movements-during-free-exploration-of-artworks-under-psilocybin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/2023\/09\/26\/131-the-psychedelic-gaze-unveiling-eye-movements-during-free-exploration-of-artworks-under-psilocybin\/","title":{"rendered":"131 | The Psychedelic Gaze: Unveiling Eye Movements During Free Exploration of Artworks Under Psilocybin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cognition, Behavior, and Memory<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author:<\/strong> Stephanie Andrea M\u00fcller | <strong>Email:<\/strong> stephanieamuller@gmail.com<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Stephanie Andrea M\u00fcller <sup>1\u00b02\u00b0<\/sup>, Federico Cavanna <sup>1\u00b02\u00b03<\/sup><sup>\u00b0<\/sup>, Laura Alethia de la Fuente <sup>1\u00b02\u00b0<\/sup>, Nicolas Bruno <sup>1\u00b02\u00b05<\/sup><sup>\u00b0<\/sup>, Tomas D&#8217; Amelio <sup>1\u00b02\u00b05<\/sup><sup>\u00b0<\/sup>, Carla Pallavicini <sup>1\u00b02\u00b03<\/sup><sup>\u00b0<\/sup>, Federico Zamberlan <sup>1\u00b06\u00b0 <\/sup>, Enzo Tagliazucchi <sup>1\u00b02\u00b04<\/sup><sup>\u00b0<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>1\u00b0 Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de F\u00edsica, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: initial;\">2\u00b0 CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de F\u00edsica Interdisciplinaria y Aplicada (INFINA), <\/span>Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: initial;\">3\u00b0 <\/span>Fundaci\u00f3n para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurol\u00f3gicas de la Infancia (FLENI), CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: initial;\">4\u00b0 <\/span>Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Iba\u00f1ez, Santiago de Chile, Chile<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: initial;\">5\u00b0 <\/span><span style=\"color: initial;\">Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Psicolog\u00eda, Instituto de Investigaciones en Psicolog\u00eda, Buenos Aires, Argentina.<br \/>\n6\u00b0 <\/span>Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands<\/p>\n<p>Classical psychedelics are renowned for their capacity to induce profound shifts in consciousness, affecting perception, emotional states, cognition, and self-awareness. This double-blind placebo-controlled study explores psilocybin&#8217;s effect on visual perception and ocular dynamics. Framed within the context of the entropic brain theory, we hypothesized that visual spatial exploration would manifest as less concentrated and more uniform, yielding an increase in the entropy of the fixation probability distribution. A cognitively undemanding task that presented participants with pleasurable stimuli was selected, fostering a naturalistic milieu conducive to sustained attention. Using an eye tracker, gaze fixations were recorded as participants freely explored artworks on a screen under the effects of psilocybin. Participants also provided self-assessments of emotional and aesthetic aspects for each artwork, while a post-task questionnaire covered various aspects of the aesthetic experience (AEQ). Results reveal higher emotional and flow scores of the AEQ under psilocybin. Eye tracker data revealed that psilocybin induces a shorter and more focused visual exploration, and thus a less entropic fixation distribution.These outcomes challenge the foundations of the entropic brain hypothesis, instead suggesting an inverse narrative: participants attribute exaggerated interest values to specific areas or scenes within the visual stimuli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: M\u00fcller Stephanie Andrea | email: stephanieamuller@gmail.com | Cognition, Behavior, and Memory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-session-1","tag-cognition-behavior-and-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2232,"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/2232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}