@article{ApelRevieCangelosietal.2011,
  author    = {Apel, Jens K. and Revie, Gavin F. and Cangelosi, Angelo and Ellis, Rob and Goslin, Jeremy and Fischer, Martin H.},
  title     = {Attention deployment during memorizing and executing complex instructions},
  series = {Experimental brain research},
  volume    = {214},
  journal   = {Experimental brain research},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {0014-4819},
  doi       = {10.1007/s00221-011-2827-4},
  pages     = {249 -- 259},
  year      = {2011},
  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.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ApelCangelosiEllisetal.2012,
  author    = {Apel, Jens K. and Cangelosi, Angelo and Ellis, Rob and Goslin, Jeremy and Fischer, Martin H.},
  title     = {Object affordance influences instruction span},
  series = {Experimental brain research},
  volume    = {223},
  journal   = {Experimental brain research},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {0014-4819},
  doi       = {10.1007/s00221-012-3251-0},
  pages     = {199 -- 206},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {We measured memory span for assembly instructions involving objects with handles oriented to the left or right side. Right-handed participants remembered more instructions when objects' handles were spatially congruent with the hand used in forthcoming assembly actions. No such affordance-based memory benefit was found for left-handed participants. These results are discussed in terms of motor simulation as an embodied rehearsal mechanism.},
  language  = {en}
}