ORCID
- Jeremy Goslin: 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 Link
Publication Date
2011-01-01
Publication Title
Exp Brain Res
Volume
214
Issue
2
ISSN
0014-4819
Acceptance Date
2011-08-01
Keywords
Acoustic Stimulation, Adolescent, Adult, Attention, Eye Movements, Female, Humans, Learning, Male, Memory, Short-Term, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Photic Stimulation, Young Adult
First Page
249
Last Page
259
Recommended Citation
Apel, J., 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: 10.1007/s00221-011-2827-4
