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Book SynopsisThe 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 availab
Table of ContentsPRELIMINARIES ; 1. Introduction ; 2. The human eye movement repertoire ; 3. How our eyes question the world ; OBSERVATIONS ; 4. Sedentary tasks ; 5. Domestic tasks ; 6. Locomotion on foot ; 7. Driving ; 8. Ball games: when to look where? ; 9. Social roles of eye movements ; COMMENTARIES ; 10. Representations of the visual world ; 11. Neuroscience of gaze and action ; 12. Attention, memory and learning
