When You Have Nowhere to Look, You Look Where You Can

When You Have Nowhere to Look, You Look Where You Can.

When do you look where you look? A visual field asymmetry

Pre-saccadic fixation durations associated with saccades directed in different directions were compared in three endogenous-attention oriented saccadic scanning tasks (i.e. visual search and scene viewing). Pre-saccadic fixation durations were consistently briefer before the execution of upward saccades, than downward saccades. Saccades also had a higher probability of being directed upwards th...

‘ You Can Always Look It up ’ . . . or Can You ?

Auntie Mame with its Park Avenue version of my progressive experience, you will know that progressive theories in the 1940s were mainly confined to private schools; they hadn't seeped very far into the public school domain. At Metairie Park, my entire ninth-grade curriculum consisted of two " integrated, " " multidisciplinary " projects, as they would now be called. They were: participating in ...

Do you have to look where you go? Gaze behaviour during spatial decision making

In this paper we present an eye-tracking experiment investigating the relation of gaze behavior, spatial decision making and route learning strategies. In the training phase participants were passively transported along a route consisting of 18 intersections. Each intersection featured two landmarks, some of which were unique while others were non-unique. In the test phase participants were pre...

Where you look can influence haptic object recognition.

We investigated whether the relative position of objects and the body would influence haptic recognition. People felt objects on the right or left side of their body midline, using their right hand. Their head was turned towards or away from the object, and they could not see their hands or the object. People were better at naming 2-D raised line drawings and 3-D small-scale models of objects a...