[vslist] Journal of Vision - Special Issue - Linking Eye Movements and Perception

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Special Issue  -  Call for Papers

Linking Eye Movements and Perception

During normal visual behavior, humans and other primates use saccades 
to scan their environment, pursuit and vergence to track moving 
objects, as well as reflexive eye movements to stabilize the retinal 
image during self-motion. Despite the sophistication of these 
movements and the important purposes they serve, most research on 
visual perception implicitly assumes that eye movements play only a 
minor role in visual processing.  Similarly, current models of 
visually driven eye movements are based on the view that the 
oculomotor system consists of simple control loops that function 
independently of perception. Indeed, some have proposed two separate 
visual systems for perception and motor action.
However, recent demonstrations in some cases of a clear linkage 
between eye movements and perception and in other cases of a lack 
thereof, together with new technical developments, have reinvigorated 
interest in the relationship between eye movements and perception.
To foster integration of critical findings across these two fields, 
we invite researchers to contribute to a special issue of the Journal 
of Vision.  Physiological, behavioral, psychophysical, computational, 
and imaging approaches are welcome.  This issue will address a wide 
range of topics, including but not limited to:

- In what ways do eye movements affect visual perception?
- In what ways does visual perception affect eye movements?
- What psychophysical methodologies can be used to better understand 
eye movements?
- What oculomotor methodologies can be used to better understand 
visual perception?
- How are saccadic and perceptual decisions related during search?
- How are object-motion perception and pursuit eye movements related?
- How do scan paths impact visual localization, discrimination, and 
identification performance?
- How do eye movements reflect attentional state?
- How does cognitive state affect eye movements?
- How are eye movements related to motor planning, such as reaching, 
grasping, and steering?

Guest Editors:
Lee Stone
NASA Ames Research Center
lstone@mail.arc.nasa.gov

Fred Miles
NIH Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research
fam@lsr.nei.nih.gov

Marty Banks
University of California, Berkeley
marty@john.berkeley.edu

Deadline for submissions:
April 2, 2003
Target publication date:
September 1, 2003

Journal of Vision encourages the use of images, color, movies, 
hyperlinks, and other digital enhancements. To submit a paper to this 
special issue please follow the Instructions for Authors at 
http://journalofvision.org/jov/info/info_for_authors.html.

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