Abstracts of the 16th European Conference on Eye Movements 2011

Françoise Vitu,Laurent Goffart,Eric Castet

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This document contains all abstracts of the 16th European Conference on Eye Movements, August 21-25 2011 in Marseille, France. It was a real honour and a great pleasure to welcome more than 500 delegates to Marseille for the 16th edition of the European Conference on Eye Movements. The series of ECEM conferences started in 1981 under the auspices of Rudolf Groner in Bern. This year, we therefore celebrated the 30th Anniversary of ECEM. For this special occasion we had as a special guest Rudolf Groner, and honoured Alan Kennedy and George W. McConkie for their contributions to our field in two special symposia. We had the pleasure of listening to six keynote lectures given respectively by Patrick Cavanagh, Ralf Engbert, Edward L. Keller, Eileen Kowler, Rich Krauzlis and Gordon E. Legge. These exceptional scientific events were nicely complemented by all submissions, which made the ECEM 2011 program a very rich and interdisciplinary endeavor, comprising 19 symposia, 243 talks and 287 poster presentations, and a total of about 550 participants. The conference opened with an address given by Denis Bertin, vice president of the scientific committee of the University of Provence, and representing Jean-Paul Caverni, President of the University of Provence. It closed with Rudolf Groner’s address and the awarding of the best poster contributions by students and postdocs. This year, three posters were awarded; the first prize was offered by SR Research, the second prize was given by the Cognitive Science Society, and the third, the Rudolf Groner Prize, was offered by the ECEM organizing committee. The conference was held on the St Charles campus of the University of Provence, and to mark the return of ECEM in Southern Europe, many events including lunches, coffee breaks, aperitifs and poster sessions took place outside under the trees of our campus. Luckily, the sun was with us for the five days of the conference ! Françoise, Stéphanie, Stéphane, Eric & Laurent

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We are evaluating how the head and eye movement behaviors of drivers with visual field loss relate to their detection of potential hazards in various situations; here we focus on scanning when approaching intersections
Our study aims to improve the effectiveness of image treatment prior to stimulation with two proposals: first, we propose to take into account gaze direction by integrating an eye tracking system, as eye movements are known to participate to the construction of spatial relationships between a subject and his environment
The important fact was that the deviation increased with distractor length, but only up to a critical length; above this length, the effect reversed that is longer distractors led to progressively smaller deviations. These results suggest that inhibitory interactions play a critical role in determining saccade metrics; they can decrease the weight of a distractor in the spatial integration of distractor and target locations, at least when the neuronal activity pattern induced by the distractor is wide enough

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Invited Talk Ralf Engbert: “Why do we need mathematical models in eye-movement research?” 105 This year, three posters were awarded; the first prize was offered by SR Research, the second prize was given by the Cognitive Science Society, and the third, the Rudolf Groner Prize, was offered by the ECEM organizing committee. Ralf Engbert studied physics at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

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