High-level scene perception

Three areas of high-level scene perception research are reviewed. The first concerns the role of eye movements in scene perception, focusing on the in fluence of ongoing cognitive processing on the position and duration of fix ations in a scene. The second concerns the nature of the scene representati on that is retained across a saccade and other brief time intervals during ongoing scene perception. Finally, we review research on the relationship b etween scene and object identification, focusing particularly on whether th e meaning of a scene influences the identification of constituent objects.