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Exorcising the devil: Adding details to a descriptive account of oculomotor control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1999

Gregory J. Zelinsky
Affiliation:
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 gzelinsk@uiuc.edu psychology.psy.sunysb.edu
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Abstract

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Findlay & Walker give voice to several common lines of thought regarding oculomotor control but do not provide sufficient detail for a critical evaluation of their theory. I argue that arbitrary spatial and temporal saccade metrics can be produced simply by manipulating the initial activation values in their model – values that the authors never specify. This lack of detail makes it difficult to anticipate the model's specific oculomotor behavior, or to compare this behavior to models opting for a more quantitative framework.

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© 1999 Cambridge University Press