Tool heads prime saccades.

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Proaction Laboratory, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, 3000-115, Coimbra, Portugal.

Published: June 2021

AI Article Synopsis

  • The study explores how eye movements (saccades) relate to tools, focusing on whether the handles or heads of tools influence these movements.
  • Researchers measured how quickly participants made eye movements while engaging in a task, regardless of the tool's relevance.
  • Results revealed that eye movements were faster when directed towards the side congruent with the tool head, suggesting the visual system prioritizes functional tool parts in guiding eye movements.

Article Abstract

Tools are wielded by their handles, but a lot of information about their function comes from their heads (the action-ends). Here we investigated whether eye saccadic movements are primed by tool handles, or whether they are primed by tool heads. We measured human saccadic reaction times while subjects were performing an attentional task. We found that saccades were executed quicker when performed to the side congruent with the tool head, even though "toolness" was irrelevant for the task. Our results show that heads are automatically processed by the visual system to orient eye movements, indicating that eyes are attracted by functional parts of manipulable objects and by the characteristic information these parts convey.

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