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Citation

Vater C, Wolfe B, Rosenholtz R. Psychon. Bull. Rev. 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Psychonomic Society Publications)

DOI

10.3758/s13423-022-02117-w

PMID

35581490

Abstract

Peripheral vision is fundamental for many real-world tasks, including walking, driving, and aviation. Nonetheless, there hasĀ been no effort to connect these applied literatures to research in peripheral vision in basic vision science or sports science. To close this gap, we analyzed 60 relevant papers, chosen according to objective criteria. Applied research, with its real-world time constraints, complex stimuli, and performance measures, reveals new functions of peripheral vision. Peripheral vision is used to monitor the environment (e.g., road edges, traffic signs, or malfunctioning lights), in ways that differ from basic research. Applied research uncovers new actions that one can perform solely with peripheral vision (e.g., steering a car, climbing stairs). An important use of peripheral vision is that it helps compare the position of one's body/vehicle to objects in the world. In addition, many real-world tasks require multitasking, and the fact that peripheral vision provides degraded but useful information means that tradeoffs are common in deciding whether to use peripheral vision or move one's eyes. These tradeoffs are strongly influenced by factors like expertise, age, distraction, emotional state, task importance, and what the observer already knows. These tradeoffs make it hard to infer from eye movements alone what information is gathered from peripheral vision and what tasks we can do without it. Finally, we recommend three ways in which basic, sport, and applied science can benefit each other's methodology, furthering our understanding of peripheral vision more generally.


Language: en

Keywords

Driving; Walking; Aviation; Peripheral vision; Sports science

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