Open Peer Commentary Findlay & Walker: Saccade generation
Top-down influences on saccade generation in cognitive tasks
Ralph Radach a1 a1 Department of Psychology, Technical University of Aachen, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
ralph@ifp.psycho.rwth-aachen.de
Abstract
The theoretical framework laid out by Findlay & Walker has direct implications for central topics in research on saccades in reading and other cognitive activities and these in turn may also have implications to be considered in the context of Findlay & Walker's model. The present commentary focuses on the problem of selecting a target for a saccade. It is argued that there are indirect and direct top-down influences on this process and that direct influences are not adequately represented in Findlay & Walker's theory.
