Eye Movements and Visual Information Processing

Abstract

The central goal of the project funded by the current grant is the understanding of how saccadic eye movements are used to accurately localize objects in space. Explaining accurate localization is a real problem because the objects we choose to look at are relatively large -- typically extending over several degrees of space -- but the saccadic eye movement must land at one place within the target. Our published research suggests that the computation requires a sequence of two stages: (1) voluntary attentional weighting of information in the visual display, and (2) automatic-spatial-pooling of the weighted formation (He and Kowler, 1989; 1991).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA259955

Entities

People

  • Eileen Kowler

Organizations

  • Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automatic
  • Center Of Gravity
  • Computations
  • Computer Vision
  • Contrast
  • Data Displays
  • Engineering
  • Eye
  • Eye Movements
  • Information Processing
  • Mathematics
  • New Brunswick
  • Perception
  • Precision
  • Psychology
  • Sequences
  • Weighting Functions

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Robotics and Automation.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects