Eye Movement and Visual Information Processing

The research we have done has shown that effective saccadic control is achieved by a division of labor between high-level mechanisms that select targets and plan scanning strategies, and low-level mechanisms that bring the line of sight to the center of attended regions and adjust saccade metrics by means of adaptive control. Understanding these processing and programming tricks is valuable for designing tasks and displays that produce best-possible performance, for developing models of the human visual, motor and cognitive systems, and for improving the design of robotic and other systems that, like human beings, must acquire information sequentially from large and complex visual scenes, with only a limited processing resources.