Moving eyes and moving thought: On the spatial compatibility between eye movements and cognition |
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Authors: | Laura E Thomas Alejandro Lleras |
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Institution: | (1) Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking, Munich, Germany;(2) Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Canada;(3) Department of Psychology, University of Hull, Hull, UK |
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Abstract: | Grant and Spivey (2003) proposed that eye movement trajectories can influence spatial reasoning by way of an implicit eye-movement-to-cognition
link. We tested this proposal and investigated the nature of this link by continuously monitoring eye movements and asking
participants to perform a problem-solving task under free-viewing conditions while occasionally guiding their eye movements
(via an unrelated tracking task), either in a pattern related to the problem’s solution or in unrelated patterns. Although
participants reported that they were not aware of any relationship between the tracking task and the problem, those who moved
their eyes in a pattern related to the problem’s solution were the most successful problem solvers. Our results support the
existence of an implicit compatibility between spatial cognition and the eye movement patterns that people use to examine
a scene. |
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