Attention deployment during memorizing and executing complex instructions
- 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.
| Verfasserangaben: | Jens K. Apel, Gavin F. Revie, Angelo CangelosiORCiDGND, Rob Ellis, Jeremy Goslin, Martin H. FischerORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2827-4 |
| ISSN: | 0014-4819 |
| Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Experimental brain research |
| Verlag: | Springer |
| Verlagsort: | New York |
| Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2011 |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2011 |
| Datum der Freischaltung: | 26.03.2017 |
| Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | Assembly task; Eye movements; Overt attention; Rehearsal; Sequential instruction; Working memory |
| Band: | 214 |
| Ausgabe: | 2 |
| Seitenanzahl: | 11 |
| Erste Seite: | 249 |
| Letzte Seite: | 259 |
| Fördernde Institution: | EPSRC [EP/F028598/1] |
| Organisationseinheiten: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |
| Peer Review: | Referiert |
| Name der Einrichtung zum Zeitpunkt der Publikation: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Exzellenzbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |
