ArticleJournal of vision2017
Control of gaze while walking: Task structure, reward, and uncertainty.
Article in Journal of vision, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Peripheral vision in real-world tasks: A systematic review.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Pooled it
- Behavioral and Neuroimaging Research on Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD): A Combined Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Recent Findings.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Attention guidance augmentation of virtual reality exposure therapy for social anxiety disorder: a pilot randomized controlled trial.Cognitive behaviour therapy · 2022Trial
- How visual context influences lateral stepping regulation while walking on winding paths.Journal of neurophysiology · 2026Article
- Conceptual priorities shape individual gaze patterns during naturalistic visual attention.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Visual Context Influences Lateral Balance While Walking on Winding Paths.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Gaze when walking to grasp an object in the presence of obstacles.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- The interplay between motor cost and self-efficacy related to walking across terrain in gaze and walking decisions.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The fundamentals of eye tracking part 1: The link between theory and research question.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Gaze-action coupling, gaze-gesture coupling, and exogenous attraction of gaze in dyadic interactions.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Fork in the road: How self-efficacy related to walking across terrain influences gaze behavior and path choice.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Attentional heterogeneity in social anxiety disorder: Evidence from Hidden Markov Models.Behaviour research and therapy · 2024Article
- Information Difference of Transfer Entropies between Head Motion and Eye Movement Indicates a Proxy of Driving.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Visual search for reach targets in actionable space is influenced by movement costs imposed by obstacles.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Multitasking in Driving as Optimal Adaptation Under Uncertainty.Human factors · 2021Article
- Icy road ahead-rapid adjustments of gaze-gait interactions during perturbed naturalistic walking.Journal of vision · 2021Article
- Target position and avoidance margin effects on path planning in obstacle avoidance.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Dual-tasking impacts gait, cognitive performance, and gaze behavior during walking in a real-world environment in older adult fallers and non-fallers.Experimental gerontology · 2021Article
- Drivers use active gaze to monitor waypoints during automated driving.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Avoidance of social threat: Evidence from eye movements during a public speaking challenge using 360°- video.Behaviour research and therapy · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
While it is universally acknowledged that both bottom up and top down factors contribute to allocation of gaze, we currently have limited understanding of how top-down factors determine gaze choices in the context of ongoing natural behavior. One purely top-down model by Sprague, Ballard, and Robinson (2007) suggests that natural behaviors can be understood in terms of simple component behaviors, or modules, that are executed according to their reward value, with gaze targets chosen in order to reduce uncertainty about the particular world state needed to execute those behaviors. We explore the plausibility of the central claims of this approach in the context of a task where subjects walk through a virtual environment performing interceptions, avoidance, and path following. Many aspects of both walking direction choices and gaze allocation are consistent with this approach. Subjects use gaze to reduce uncertainty for task-relevant information that is used to inform action choices. Notably the addition of motion to peripheral objects did not affect fixations when the objects were irrelevant to the task, suggesting that stimulus saliency was not a major factor in gaze allocation. The modular approach of independent component behaviors is consistent with the main aspects of performance, but there were a number of deviations suggesting that modules interact. Thus the model forms a useful, but incomplete, starting point for understanding top-down factors in active behavior.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.