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(More customer reviews)The book is collection of research articles and because of my research interests I have not read the first half of the book, about reading. If you are especially interested in reading, you might consider Underwoods earlier books. The articles on second half I've found very useful for the following reasons. Topics serve as interesting reviews, because dealing with very general phenomena they maintain the relevance, only rarely (in Underwoods own article) diving too deep to experimental details. They provide new perspectives supported by recent experimental research. For example, implications of Rensink's change blindness are criticized. Eventhough I've found very useful references based on this book, there was no feeling of reading a textbook. I mean, it made me think about the open research problems, instead of simply listing literature based on some historical authority.
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Whether reading, looking at a picture, or driving, how is it that we know where to look next - how does the human visual system calculate where our gaze should be directed in order to achieve our cognitive aims? Of course, there is an interaction between the decisions about where we should look and about how long we should look there. However, our eyes do not just move randomly over the visual field - whether we are reading, driving, or solving a problem. There are systematic variations not only in the duration of each eye fixation, but also in what we are looking at. It is these variations in eye movements that can tell us much about the cognitive processes involved in the performance of these activities. Within reading research, great progress has already been made in understanding these processes and there are now a number of competing and well-formed models. In some other areas of perception, the development of formal theories and the search for critical evidence is less advanced. This book brings together leading vision scientists studying eye movements across a range of activities, such as reading, driving, computer activities, and chess.It provides groundbreaking new research that will help us understand how it is that we know where to move our eyes, and thereby better understand the cognitive processes underlying these activities.
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