ORCID
- Goslin, Jeremy: 0000-0001-7894-1140
Abstract
We investigated the mental rehearsal of complex action instructions by recording spontaneous eye movements of healthy adults as they looked at objects on a monitor. Participants heard consecutive instructions, each of the form "move [object] to [location]". Instructions were only to be executed after a go signal, by manipulating all objects successively with a mouse. Participants re-inspected previously mentioned objects already while listening to further instructions. This rehearsal behavior broke down after 4 instructions, coincident with participants' instruction span, as determined from subsequent execution accuracy. These results suggest that spontaneous eye movements while listening to instructions predict their successful execution.
DOI
10.1007/s00221-011-2827-4
Publication Date
2011-08-01
Publication Title
Exp Brain Res
Volume
214
Issue
2
First Page
249
Last Page
259
Organisational Unit
School of Psychology
Keywords
Acoustic Stimulation, Adolescent, Adult, Attention, Eye Movements, Female, Humans, Learning, Male, Memory, Short-Term, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Photic Stimulation, Young Adult
Recommended Citation
Apel, J. K., Revie, G., Cangelosi, A., Ellis, R., Goslin, J., & Fischer, M. (2011) 'Attention deployment during memorizing and executing complex instructions.', Exp Brain Res, 214(2), pp. 249-259. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2827-4
