TY - JOUR PY - 2021// TI - Spatio-temporal flexibility of attention inferred from drivers' steering movements JO - Journal of Motor Behavior A1 - Rizzi, Emanuele A1 - Bloom, Benjamin J. A1 - Jagacinski, Richard J. SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - Participants attempted to center a cursor on a video display of a winding roadway with a rate control system. Fourier analysis of their steering movements in response to sinusoidal perturbations of the roadway revealed how much attention they allocated to different roadway preview locations. We compared a full 1.0 s of preview with preview restricted to a narrow slit around 0.3 s or 0.6 s. Participants were able to flexibly shift their attention to either slit. However, they performed better in terms of root-mean-squared error, velocity error, and acceleration error with the fuller view. They concentrated their attention over a range from 0.1 s to 0.3 s of preview in a manner qualitatively consistent with Miller's optimal control model.

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LA - en SN - 0022-2895 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222895.2020.1868968 ID - ref1 ER -