Quiet Eye Duration Is Responsive to Variability of Practice and To the Axis of Target Changes
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2012
Journal / Book Title
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
Abstract
We tested the hypothesis that quiet eye, the final fixation before the initiation of a movement in aiming tasks, is used to scale the movement’s parameters. Two groups of 12 participants (N = 24) threw darts to targets in the horizontal and vertical axes under conditions of higher (random) or lower (blocked) target variability. Supporting our predictions, random practice and target changes in the vertical axis led to longer quiet eye duration than did blocked practice and target changes in the horizontal axis. Our data suggest that quiet eye is not simply a mediating factor in accuracy, but is responsive to the task’s programming demands, being influenced by the necessity to reparameterize the movement from one trial to the next.
DOI
10.1080/02701367.2012.10599851
Montclair State University Digital Commons Citation
Horn, Robert R.; Okumura, Michelle S.; Alexander, Melissa G.F.; Gardin, Frederick A.; and Sylvester, Curtis T., "Quiet Eye Duration Is Responsive to Variability of Practice and To the Axis of Target Changes" (2012). Department of Exercise Science and Physical Education Scholarship and Creative Works. 55.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/exersci-physed-facpubs/55