The Role of Eye Movements in Perceptual Processes (Volume 88) (Advances in Psychology, Volume 88)

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. Content: Edited by Pages ii-iii Copyright page Page iv Preface Pages v-vii Keith R. Llewellyn Acknowledgements Page viii Eugene Chekaluk, Keith Llewellyn Contributors Page x Visual Direction Constancy: Perceiving the Visual Direction of Perisaccadic Flashes Original Research Article Pages 1-43 Wayne A. Hershberger, J. Scott Jordan Contextual Factors in Scene Perception Original Research Article Pages 45-72 Helene Intraub Eye Movements and Perceptual Multistability Original Research Article Pages 73-109 Miguel A. Garcia-Perez The Role of Eye Movements in Reading: Some Limitations of the Eye-Mind Assumption Original Research Article Pages 111-169 Geoffrey Underwood, John Everatt Saccadic Suppression: A Functional Viewpoint Original Research Article Pages 171-198 Eugene Chekaluk, Keith R. Llewellyn Mechanisms Underlying Saccadic Suppression in Specifically Disabled and Normal Readers Original Research Article Pages 199-218 William Lovegrove Response Characteristics of Midbrain Neurons Related to Vergence Eye Movements Original Research Article Pages 219-237 J.W. Morley Eye Movements: Developmental Aspects Original Research Article Pages 239-306 Sandra L. Shea Author Index Pages 307-336 Subject Index Pages 337-347