Eye Movements in Time : Auditory Influences on Ocu- Lomotor Timing
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Deposit Guide Contact: email Eye Movements in Time Auditory Influences on Oculomotor Timing Jonathan Batten Department of Psychological Sciences Birkbeck, University of London A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy February 2018 1 Originality Statement ‘I, Jonathan Batten, declare that the work in this submitted thesis is my own.’ Signed: February 21st 2018 2 Abstract The dominant models of eye movement timing consider only visual factors as modulators of when gaze orients (e.g. EZ-Reader, SWIFT, CRISP, LATEST). Yet real- world perception is multimodal, and temporal information from audition can both aid the predictive orienting of gaze (to relevant audiovisual onsets in time), and inform visual orientation decisions known to modulate saccade timing, e.g. where to orient. The aim of this thesis was to further the current understanding of eye movement timing to incorporate auditory information; specifically investigating the implicit and explicit capacity for musical beats to influence (and entrain) eye movements, and to quantify the capacity and limitations of direct control when volitionally matching eye movements to auditory onsets. To achieve this, a highly-simplified gaze-contingent visual search paradigm was refined that minimised visual and task factors in order to measure auditory influence. The findings of this thesis present evidence that self-paced eye movements are impervious to implicit auditory influences. The explicit control of eye movements, as small corrections in time to align with similarly timed music, was very limited. In contrast, when visual transitions were externally timed, audiovisual correspondence systematically delayed fixation durations. The thesis also measured the extent of direct control that can be exerted on eye movements, including the role of auditory feedback, as well as modulating visual complexity to further increase inhibition and temporal precision. These studies show a predictive relationship between the level of direct volitional control that an individual can affect and how synchronised they are. Additionally, these studies quantify a large subpopulation of quick eye movements that are impervious to direct control. These findings are discussed as provocation for revised oculomotor models, future work that 3 considers the temporal relationship between shifts of attention and gaze, and implications for wider psychological research that employs timed eye movement measures. 4 Table of Contents Abstract ...............................................................................................................................3 Acknowledgements .............................................................................................................9 List of Figures ...................................................................................................................11 List of Tables ....................................................................................................................15 Chapter 1 General Introduction ........................................................................................16 1.2 Eye Movement Timing ...........................................................................................19 1.2.1 Top-down control: direct, indirect and mixed control. ....................................20 1.2.2 Findlay and Walker model. ..............................................................................23 1.2.3 E-Z Reader model. ...........................................................................................25 1.2.4 SWIFT model...................................................................................................26 1.2.5 CRISP model. ..................................................................................................27 1.2.6 ICAT model. ....................................................................................................29 1.2.7 LATEST model. ...............................................................................................31 1.2.8 Model summary. ..............................................................................................34 1.3 Sensory Motor Synchronisation ..............................................................................38 1.3.1 Auditory and visual rhythms. ...........................................................................38 1.3.2 Error correction. ...............................................................................................40 1.3.3 Negative mean asynchrony. .............................................................................42 1.3.4 Musical expertise. ............................................................................................42 1.3.5 Music perception and groove ...........................................................................43 1.3.6 Implicit SMS. ...................................................................................................45 1.3.7 Saccadic SMS. .................................................................................................47 1.3.8 Summary of SMS. ............................................................................................49 1.4 Conclusion and Research Aims ..............................................................................50 Chapter 2 Implicit Entrainment of Eye Movements to Music ..........................................52 5 2.1 Chapter Overview ...................................................................................................53 2.2 Experiment One: Implicit Entrainment at 500 and 750ms .....................................53 2.2.1 Method. ............................................................................................................56 2.2.2 Results. .............................................................................................................62 2.2.3 Discussion of Experiment One ........................................................................66 2.3 Experiment Two: Implicit Entrainment at the Natural Pace of Eye Movements ...67 2.3.1 Method. ............................................................................................................67 2.3.2 Results ..............................................................................................................70 2.4 Discussion of Experiment 1 and 2 ..........................................................................75 Chapter 3 Eye Can’t Dance: Entraining Motor and Oculomotor Movements to Music ..78 3.1 Chapter Overview ...................................................................................................79 3.2: Experiment Three: Implicit and Explicit Eye and Finger-Tap Movements to Music.............................................................................................................................79 3.3 Method ....................................................................................................................82 3.3.1 Participants. ......................................................................................................82 3.3.2 Apparatus. ........................................................................................................82 3.3.3 Design modifications. ......................................................................................83 3.3.4 Procedure. ........................................................................................................84 3.3.5 Data cleaning. ..................................................................................................86 3.4 Results. ....................................................................................................................86 3.4.1 Summary of latency results. .............................................................................94 3.4.2 Summary of mean resultant length results. ....................................................102 3.5 Discussion .............................................................................................................103 Chapter 4 Following the Lead: Endogenous and Exogenous Eye Movement Synchronisation...............................................................................................................106 4.1 Chapter Overview .................................................................................................107 4.2: Experiment Four: Endogenous and Exogenous Eye Movement Synchronisation .....................................................................................................................................107 6 4.3 Method. .................................................................................................................110 4.3.1 Participants. ....................................................................................................110 4.3.2 Design modifications. ....................................................................................110