Cognitive Processes in Eye Guidance

Edited by Geoffrey Underwood

398 pages | numerous line drawings and halftones | 234x156mm

978-0-19-856681-6 | Paperback | 28 July 2005

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An important new book, bringing together leading vision scientists to explore the eye movement mechanisms that allow us to read, drive, and negotiate the world around us
Examines the role of eye movements in a broad range of activities, providing valuable information for anyone working in the field of human cognition
Shows how a better understanding of eye movement mechanisms can tell us much about the processes involved in the performance of activities such as reading

Whether reading, looking at a picture, or driving, how is it that we know where to look next - how does the human visual system calculate where our gaze should be directed in order to achieve our cognitive aims? Of course, there is an interaction between the decisions about where we should look and about how long we should look there. However, our eyes do not just move randomly over the visual field - whether we are reading, driving, or solving a problem. There are systematic variations not only in the duration of each eye fixation, but also in what we are looking at. It is these variations in eye movements that can tell us much about the cognitive processes involved in the performance of these activities. Within reading research, great progress has already been made in understanding these processes and there are now a number of competing and well-formed models. In some other areas of perception, the development of formal theories and the search for critical evidence is less advanced. This book brings together leading vision scientists studying eye movements across a range of activities, such as reading, driving, computer activities, and chess. It provides groundbreaking new research that will help us understand how it is that we know where to move our eyes, and thereby better understand the cognitive processes underlying these activities.

Readership: Cognitive psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists, vision scientists

Edited by Geoffrey Underwood, Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Nottingham

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Contributors:
Raymond Bertram, Dept of Psychology, University of Turku, Finland
Marc Brysbaert, Dept of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey
Monica S Castelhano, Dept of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI, USA
Peter Chapman, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK
Neil Charness, Psychology Dept, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL, USA
David Crundall, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK
Peter de Graef, Lab of Experimental Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium
Denis Drieghe, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Ghent, Belgium
John M Findlay, Dept of Psychology, University of Durham, UK
Iain D Gilchrist, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, UK
John M Henderson, Dept of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI, USA
Jukka Hyona, Dept of Psychology, University of Turku, Finland
Albrecht W Inhoff, Dept of Psychology, State University of New York, Binghamton NY, USA
Gunther Knoblich, Psychology Dept, Rutgers University, Newark NJ, USA
George W McConkie, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
Michael Ollinger, Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany
Alexander Pollatsek, Dept of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, USA
Ralph Radach, Dept of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL, USA
Keith Rayner, Dept of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, USA
Erik D Reichle, Dept of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Eyal M Reingold, Dept of Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga ON, Canada
Michael J Spivey, Dept of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA
Geoffrey Underwood, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK
Jean Underwood, Division of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
Francoise Vitu, Lab de Psychologie Cognitive, CNRS, Universite de Provence, Marseille, France
Ulrich W Weger, Dept of Psychology, State University of New York, Binghamton NY, USA
Shun-nan Yang, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco CA, USA

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