Visual memory and motor planning in a natural task.

By Mary M. Hayhoe, Anurag Shrivastava, Ryan E. B. Mruczek, J. Pelz. Journal of Vision, 2003

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This paper investigates the temporal dependencies of natural vision by measuring eye and hand movements while subjects made a sandwich. The phenomenon of change blindness suggests these temporal dependencies might be limited. Our observations are largely consistent with this, suggesting that much natural vision can be accomplished with "just-in-time" representations. However, we also observe several aspects of performance that point to the need for some representation of the spatial structure of the scene that is built up over different fixations. Patterns of eye-hand coordination and fixation sequences suggest the need for planning and coordinating movements over a period of a few seconds. This planning must be in a coordinate frame that is independent of eye position, and thus requires a representation of the spatial structure in a scene that is built up over different fixations.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Human-Computer Interaction

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The central fixation bias in scene viewing: selecting an optimal viewing position independently of motor biases and image feature distributions. (2007, result): “Such task dependence of fixation selection is consistent with studies of vision under natural settings (e.g., Hayhoe et al., 2003; Land & Hayhoe, 2001), with previous studies of the correlation between features and Downloaded from jov.arvojournals.org on 10/02/2019 fixation in free viewing and…”
Eye guidance in natural vision: Reinterpreting salience (2011, background): “…of overt visual attention is highlighted by the fact that when engaged in a natural task essentially all the fixations fall on taskrelevant objects (Hayhoe et al., 2003; Land et al., 1999), whereas before beginning a task (such as sandwich making) the distribution of fixations between…”
Eye movements in natural behavior. (2005, methodology): “What do we see when we look? Fixation patterns in natural tasks suggests that very specific visual computations are performed at the fixation point as needed for task performance [5,8,9].”
Task and context determine where you look. (2016, background): “But the task itself can be natural too such as in the previously mentioned studies studying gaze in tea making (Land et al., 1999) or sandwich making (Hayhoe et al., 2003).”
Adaptive Gaze Control in Natural Environments (2009, background): “Recent work in natural tasks has demonstrated that the observer’s cognitive goals play a critical role in the distribution of gaze during a wide range of natural behaviors (Land and Furneaux, 1997; Land et al., 1999; Hayhoe et al., 2003; Land, 2004; Hayhoe and Ballard, 2005).”
Saliency, attention, and visual search: an information theoretic approach. (2009, neutral): “More recent efforts have continued in the same vein (Hayhoe & Ballard, 2005; Hayhoe, Shrivastava, Mruczek, & Pelz, 2003; Land, Mennie, & Rusted, 1999), observing eye movements in a variety of real-world settings and further demonstrating the role of task in the direction of visual and presumably…”
What do eyes reveal about the mind?: Algorithmic inference of search targets from fixations (2015, background): “There is a rich collection of literature that discusses the role of oculomotor behavior in tasks as diverse as reading [69,22], pattern copying [1], portrait painting [55], visual search [80,84,88], tea making [44], sandwich making [32], fencing [29], cricket [46], squash [21], billiards [23], juggl”