Toward a Better Understanding of Advertising Stimuli Processing

Marketers and advertisers increasingly acknowledge that a large proportion of human decision making is intuitive, automatic, and often without conscious control or effort. Against this background, the current study explores consumers9 subconscious responses in relation to their eye fixation at a static advertising image, in this case a DVD cover. Using electroencephalography (EEG) and eye-tracking (ET) data, the study makes a contribution at two levels. First, it empirically explores the impact of consumers9 eye fixation on peripheral information. Second, it makes a methodological contribution in demonstrating how these two data-collection techniques can be integrated to better understand the relationship between where consumers look when exposed to a static advertisement and their subsequent level of subconscious responses.