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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.
Opening a field in eye movement research, this fascinating book
will be of great interest to all vision scientists (psychologists,
physiologists, ophthalmologists) whether at professional, graduate,
or advanced undergraduate levels. It will also be of value to
musicians, artists, sports scientists, and transport engineers, and
indeed anyone intrigued by the way we sample the visual world.
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