The role of eye movements in the perception of visually induced autokinesis

Brosgole, Leonard; Cristal, Robert M.; Carpenter, Otis

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“…Brosgole (1968), for example, showed that autokinesis of an after-image was in the same direction as that of a fixated target continually located in its center I ruling out an eye movement explanation. On the basis of other work, Jordan 0968) as -45-well as Brosgole and his associates (Brosgole, 1966(Brosgole, , 1967(Brosgole, , 1968Brosgole and Cristal, 1967;Brosgole, Cristal, and Carpenter, 1968;Brosgole and Hansen, 1969) have argued that autokinesis is egocentrically determined.…”

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Some Aspects of the Development of Space Perception

Wapner

Cirillo

Baker

1970

ETS Research Bulletin Series

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Some Aspects of the Development of Space Perception

Wapner

Cirillo

Baker

1970

ETS Research Bulletin Series

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Eye movements in reading and information processing.

Rayner¹

1978

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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Spatial Induction of Illusory Motion

Gogel

Griffin

1982

Perception

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Induced motion is not limited to continuous motions presented on a frontoparallel plane. Experiments were conducted to investigate several varieties of induced motion to which theories of induced motion must apply. The observer indicated the perceived path of motion of a vertically moving test point to which induced motion at right angles to the physical motion was added by the motion of two inducing points. In experiment 1 all motions (both apparently and physically) were in a frontoparallel plane. It was found that discrete displacement as well as continuous motion of the test and inducing points produced substantial amounts of induction. In experiment 2 the inducing points were continuously moved in stereoscopic distance rather than remaining in an apparent frontoparallel plane. A large amount of apparent motion in depth was found in the vertically moving test point and was interpreted as an induced motion in depth. In experiment 3 an alternative interpretation of the phenomenon of experiment 2, in terms of an apparent vergence for the two images of the test point, was investigated and found to be unlikely. In experiment 4, with all the points moving continuously in a frontoparallel plane, eye motions as well as induced motions were measured, with the observer fixating either the test point or an inducing point. Substantial amounts of induction were obtained under both conditions of fixation. The consequences of these findings for theories of induced motion are discussed.

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The role of eye movements in the perception of visually induced autokinesis

Cited by 6 publications

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Some Aspects of the Development of Space Perception

Some Aspects of the Development of Space Perception

Eye movements in reading and information processing.

Spatial Induction of Illusory Motion

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