scholarly journals Eye movement signatures of decision making and hand movement accuracy in a go-no go manual interception task

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 813
Author(s):  
Miriam Spering ◽  
Jolande Fooken
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Eye Movement ◽  
Hand Movement ◽  
Movement Accuracy

Instructions to attend to an observed action increase imitation in autistic adults

Autism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 730-743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Gowen ◽  
Andrius Vabalas ◽  
Alexander J Casson ◽  
Ellen Poliakoff
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Visual Attention ◽  
Eye Movement ◽  
Hand Movement ◽  
Autistic Group ◽  
Instruction Condition ◽  
Following Instructions ◽  
Autistic Adults ◽  
Movement Imitation ◽  
Vertical Elevation

This study investigated whether reduced visual attention to an observed action might account for altered imitation in autistic adults. A total of 22 autistic and 22 non-autistic adults observed and then imitated videos of a hand producing sequences of movements that differed in vertical elevation while their hand and eye movements were recorded. Participants first performed a block of imitation trials with general instructions to imitate the action. They then performed a second block with explicit instructions to attend closely to the characteristics of the movement. Imitation was quantified according to how much participants modulated their movement between the different heights of the observed movements. In the general instruction condition, the autistic group modulated their movements significantly less compared to the non-autistic group. However, following instructions to attend to the movement, the autistic group showed equivalent imitation modulation to the non-autistic group. Eye movement recording showed that the autistic group spent significantly less time looking at the hand movement for both instruction conditions. These findings show that visual attention contributes to altered voluntary imitation in autistic individuals and have implications for therapies involving imitation as well as for autistic people’s ability to understand the actions of others.

DECISION MAKING IN IDIOPATHIC RAPID EYE MOVEMENT SLEEP BEHAVIOR DISORDER

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. S9
Author(s):  
Birgit Högl ◽  
Laura Ehrmann ◽  
Margarete Delazer ◽  
Thomas Mitterling ◽  
Viola Gschliesser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Eye Movement ◽  
Behavior Disorder ◽  
Rapid Eye Movement ◽  
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep ◽  
Sleep Behavior

Applications and Innovations of Eye-movement Research in Judgment and Decision Making

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 96-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel J. S. Ashby ◽  
Joseph G. Johnson ◽  
Ian Krajbich ◽  
Michel Wedel
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Eye Movement ◽  
Judgment And Decision Making

scholarly journals Covert shift of attention modulates the value encoding in the orbitofrontal cortex

eLife ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Xie ◽  
Chechang Nie ◽  
Tianming Yang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Eye Movement ◽  
Neuronal Activity ◽  
Orbitofrontal Cortex ◽  
Passive Viewing ◽  
Reward Value ◽  
Winner Take All ◽  
Take All ◽  
Attention Shifts

During value-based decision making, we often evaluate the value of each option sequentially by shifting our attention, even when the options are presented simultaneously. The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) has been suggested to encode value during value-based decision making. Yet it is not known how its activity is modulated by attention shifts. We investigated this question by employing a passive viewing task that allowed us to disentangle effects of attention, value, choice and eye movement. We found that the attention modulated OFC activity through a winner-take-all mechanism. When we attracted the monkeys’ attention covertly, the OFC neuronal activity reflected the reward value of the newly attended cue. The shift of attention could be explained by a normalization model. Our results strongly argue for the hypothesis that the OFC neuronal activity represents the value of the attended item. They provide important insights toward understanding the OFC’s role in value-based decision making.

Age as a Factor in Combined Manual and Decision Tasks

1979 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 595-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dev S. Kochhar ◽  
Hatem M. Ali
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Heart Rate ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Movement Time ◽  
Hand Movement ◽  
Movement Control ◽  
Decision Time ◽  
Radial Clearance ◽  
Information Load ◽  
Different Levels

A study was conducted to investigate the variation in speed of performance and decision making ability with age. The task performed involved decision making, hand movement, and positioning elements. The effects of age on decision and movement time were examined when information load, distance of move, and radial clearance (target width) were varied. In addition, heart rate was also monitored. Significant differences were detected in both decision and movement time for different levels of information load, distance of move, and radial clearance between the older (52 to 63 years) and younger (18 to 29 years) groups of subjects. Decision time differences between the two groups increased at higher levels of information load. The relationship between movement time and index of difficulty suggested that the older worker tends to exhibit a “start-up” lag in exercising movement control. Performance errors indicated that the slowing among the older workers was not observed at the expense of accuracy. The study provided no evidence that age has an effect on heart rate variability under different levels of information load and task difficulty.

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