Reading List #2

Read all the things! This week I've been working on a reply to reviewer comments on a paper I've been working on for a while. One of the reviewers gave a a deluge of citations to look at, so I've been going through those and finding a few more papers of interest.


Here are two interesting papers about how performing a reaching movement seems to attract your attention towards the point of the reach (presumably for error correction)

• Jonikaitis, D., & Deubel, H. (2011). Independent allocation of attention to eye and hand targets in coordinated eye-hand movements. Psychological Science : A Journal of the American Psychological Society / APS, 22(3), 339–347. http://doi.org/10.1177/0956797610397666
• Neggers, S. F. W., & Bekkering, H. (2000). Ocular gaze is anchored to the target of an ongoing pointing movement. Journal of Neurophysiology, 83(1995), 639–651.

And here's a cool one that compares eye movements and verbal reports of what subjects are paying attention to. The introduction is fascinating to me because it describes a few real life cases where people fixate on one location but direct their attention to the periphery. Most people know they can do this, but it's interesting to see concrete realistic cases where it's useful. The article mentions sports and driving and hints at the need to analyze this in ergonomics research.

• Williams, A. M., & Davids, K. (1997). Assessing cue usage in performance contexts : A comparison between eye-movement and concurrent verbal report methods. Behaviour Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 29(3), 364–375. http://doi.org/10.3758/BF03200589