The Role of eye movements in perceptual processes /
edited by Eugene Chekaluk, Keith Llewellyn.
- Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland, 1992.
- 1 online resource (x, 347 pages) : illustrations.
- Advances in psychology ; 88 .
- Advances in psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 88. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Front Cover; The Role of Eye Movements in Perceptual Processes; Copyright Page; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1. Visual Direction Constancy: Perceiving the Visual Direction of Perisaccadic Flashes; Chapter 2. Contextual Factors In Scene Perception; Chapter 3. Eye Movements And Perceptual Multistability Miguel A. Garcia-Perez; Chapter 4. The Role of Eye Movements In Reading: Some Limitations of The Eye-Mind Assumption; Chapter 5. Saccadic Suppression: A Functional Viewpoint.
It has become a truism that the frozen optical diagram representation of vision is the worst possible picture of the way in which we visually interact with the environment. Even apart from our reaction to moving targets by pursuit movements, our visual behaviour can be said to be characterised by eye movements. We sample from our environment in a series of relatively brief fixations which move from one point to another in a series of extremely rapid jerks known as saccades. Many questions arising from this characteristic of vision are explored within this volume, including the question of how our visual world maintains its perceptual stability despite the drastic changes in input associated with these eye movements.