An edition of Looking and acting (2009)

Looking and acting

vision and eye movements in natural behaviour

Looking and acting
Michael F. Land, Michael F. La ...
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An edition of Looking and acting (2009)

Looking and acting

vision and eye movements in natural behaviour

"The cooperative action of different regions of our brains gives us an amazing capacity to perform activities as diverse as playing the piano and hitting a tennis ball. Somehow, without conscious effort, our eyes find the information we need to operate successfully in the world around us. The development of head-mounted eye trackers over recent years has made it possible to record where we look during different active tasks, and so work out what information our eyes supply to the brain systems that control our limbs. We are now in a position to explore the strategies that the eye movement system uses in the initiation and guidance of action." "Looking and Acting examines a wide range of visually guided behaviour; from sedentary tasks like reading and drawing, to dynamic activities such as driving and playing cricket. A central theme is that the eye movement system has its own knowledge about where to find the most appropriate information for guiding action - information not usually available to conscious scrutiny. Thus each type of action has its own specific repertoire of linked eye movements, acquired in parallel with the motor skills themselves. Starting with a brief background to eye movement studies, the book then reviews a range of observations and analyses of different activities. It ends with discussions of the nature of visual representation, the neurophysiology of the systems involved, and the roles of attention and learning."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
269

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Looking and acting: vision and eye movements in natural behaviour
2009, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

Preliminaries
Human eye movement repertoire
How our eyes question the world
Observations
Sedentary tasks
Domestic tasks
Locomotion on foot
Driving
Ball games: when to look where?
Social roles of eye movements
Commentaries
Representations of the visual world
Neuroscience of gaze and action
Attention, memory, and learning.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-263) and index.

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Oxford, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
612.846
Library of Congress
QP477.5 .L36 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 269 p. :
Number of pages
269

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24528983M
ISBN 10
0198570945
ISBN 13
9780198570943
LCCN
2010487335
OCLC/WorldCat
320194041

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