TY  - JOUR
A1  - Apel, Jens K.
A1  - Revie, Gavin F.
A1  - Cangelosi, Angelo
A1  - Ellis, Rob
A1  - Goslin, Jeremy
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
T1  - Attention deployment during memorizing and executing complex instructions
JF  - Experimental brain research
N2  - 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.
KW  - Assembly task
KW  - Eye movements
KW  - Overt attention
KW  - Rehearsal
KW  - Sequential instruction
KW  - Working memory
Y1  - 2011
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2827-4
SN  - 0014-4819
VL  - 214
IS  - 2
SP  - 249
EP  - 259
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -