Hand-eye coordination during sequential tasks

Ballard, Dana H.; Hayhoe, Mary; Li, F.; Whitehead, Steven D.

doi:10.1098/rstb.1992.0111

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“…A strategy of thoroughly inspecting the object with a series of closely spaced fixations from a limited number of viewpoints led to the best recognition rates. Studies in which eye-hand coordination is important, such as playing video games (Shapiro & Raymond, 1989), have revealed orderly sequences in which people coordinate looking and action (Ballard, Hayhoe, Li, & Whitehead, 1992;Ballard, Hayhoe, & Pelz, 1995;Epelboim, Steinman, Kowlet;Edwards, Pizlo, Erkelens, & CoUewijn, 1995). Epelboim et al found that eye movements in such situations were more efficient when participants had to perform an action than when they simply had to look at the sequence.…”

Section: Dynamic Situationsmentioning

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Eye movements in reading and information processing: 20 years of research.

Rayner

1998

Psychological Bulletin

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Recent studies of eye movements in reading and other information processing tasks, such as music reading, typing, visual search, and scene perception, are reviewed. The major emphasis of the review is on reading as a specific example of cognitive processing. Basic topics discussed with respect to reading are (a) the characteristics of eye movements, (b) the perceptual span, (c) integration of information across saccades, (d) eye movement control, and (e) individual differences (including dyslexia). Similar topics are discussed with respect to the other tasks examined. The basic theme of the review is that eye movement data reflect moment-to-moment cognitive processes in the various tasks examined. Theoretical and practical considerations concerning the use of eye movement data are also discussed.Many studies using eye movements to investigate cognitive processes have appeared over the past 20 years. In an earlier review, I (Rayner, 1978b) argued that since the mid-1970s we have been in a third era of eye movement research and that the success of research in the current era would depend on the ingenuity of researchers in designing interesting and informative studies. It would appear from the vast number of studies using eye movement data over the past 20 years that research in this third era is fulfilling the promise inherent in using eye movement behavior to infer cognitive processes. The first era of eye movement research extended from Javal's initial observations concerning the role of eye movements in reading in 1879 (see Huey, 1908) up until about 1920. During this era, many basic facts about eye movements were discovered. Issues such as saccadic suppression (the fact that we do not perceive information during an eye movement), saccade latency (the time that it takes to initiate an eye movement), and the size of the perceptual span (the region of effective vision) were of concern in this era. The second era, which coincided with the behaviorist movement in experimental psychology, tended to have a more applied focus, and little research was undertaken with eye movements to infer cognitive processes. Although classic work by Tinker (1946) on reading and by Buswell (1935) on scene perception was carried out during this era, in retrospect, most of the work seems to have focused on the eye movements per se (or on surface aspects of the task being investigated). Tinker's (1958) final review ended on the rather pessimistic note that almost every-

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Section: Dynamic Situationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eye movements in reading and information processing: 20 years of research.

Rayner

1998

Psychological Bulletin

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“…In a task in which participants used coloured blocks to reconstruct a visible model, the eye movement strategies employed revealed a tight coupling between vision and action [52]. In this task, each goal completion requires knowledge only of the colour of each block and the position in the model at which it should be placed.…”

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Vision and the representation of the surroundings in spatial memory

Tatler

Land

2011

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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One of the paradoxes of vision is that the world as it appears to us and the image on the retina at any moment are not much like each other. The visual world seems to be extensive and continuous across time. However, the manner in which we sample the visual environment is neither extensive nor continuous. How does the brain reconcile these differences? Here, we consider existing evidence from both static and dynamic viewing paradigms together with the logical requirements of any representational scheme that would be able to support active behaviour. While static scene viewing paradigms favour extensive, but perhaps abstracted, memory representations, dynamic settings suggest sparser and task-selective representation. We suggest that in dynamic settings where movement within extended environments is required to complete a task, the combination of visual input, egocentric and allocentric representations work together to allow efficient behaviour. The egocentric model serves as a coding scheme in which actions can be planned, but also offers a potential means of providing the perceptual stability that we experience.

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“…Many multicomponent tasks, such as playing tennis or laying bricks, repeat after a succession of di¡erent actions (dashed line). A good example of a recursive two-component task, as shown in ¢gure 1c, is the block matching task devised by Ballard et al (1992). This consisted of picking up and moving blocks to build a particular pattern, and it involves the eyes in identifying and selecting appropriate blocks and guiding the hand to the proper place in the pattern.…”

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The knowledge base of the oculomotor system

Land

Furneaux

1997

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B

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In everyday life, eye movements enable the eyes to gather the information required for motor actions. They are thus proactive, anticipating actions rather than just responding to stimuli. This means that the oculomotor system needs to know where to look and what to look for. Using examples from table tennis, driving and music reading we show that the information the eye movement system requires is very varied in origin and highly task speci¢c, and it is suggested that the control program or schema for a particular action must include directions for the oculomotor and visual processing systems. In many activities (reading text and music, typing, steering) processed information is held in a memory bu¡er for a period of about a second. This permits a match between the discontinuous input from the eyes and continuous motor output, and in particular allows the eyes to be involved in more than one task.

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Hand-eye coordination during sequential tasks

Cited by 249 publications

References 5 publications

Eye movements in reading and information processing: 20 years of research.

Eye movements in reading and information processing: 20 years of research.

Vision and the representation of the surroundings in spatial memory

The knowledge base of the oculomotor system

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