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Mary M. Hayhoe, Ph.D.
Professor

Email: mary@mail.cps.utexas.edu Phone: 475-9338 Office: 5.238 Lab: SEA 4.334 Virtual Reality Lab Center for Perceptual Systems See also Perceptual Systems

Vision naturally occurs in the context of voluntary information gathering movements involving the eyes, head, and hand. However, much work in vision is dominated by trying to understand the events occurring within a single view of a scene, and we have only limited understanding of the consequences of eye and head movements for vision and visuo-motor coordination. The technology to look at performance in more natural circumstances now exists, and I am currently developing a human sensory-motor lab, in collaboration with Dana Ballard in Computer Science, for measuring unconstrained eye, head, and hand movements in the performance of natural tasks, and for developing a virtual reality display to allow controlled but visually complex stimulation. We also have the capability of providing force feedback for two finger grasping. The new instrumentation allows a large range of experiments not previously possible. My objective is to understand the demands placed on vision and motor systems by natural behavior and the nature of the representations that are required for visually guided tasks.

Courses

UNDERGRADUATE:

PSY 341K, Seeing and Acting in a Virtual World

GRADUATE:

PSY 394U, Perception and Action
PSY 394U, Intro to Cognitive Science

Selected Publications

(See Dr. Hayhoe's Lab page ,for a full list of publications and sample movies.)

Mennie, N., Hayhoe, M., Sullivan, B. (accepted) Look-ahead fixations: anticipatory eye movements in natural tasks. Experimental Brain Research. PDF

Jovancevic, J., Sullivan, B. & Hayhoe, M. (2006) Control of attention and gaze in complex environments. Journal of Vision, 6, 1431-1450. PDF

Hayhoe, M., Mannie, N., Sullivan, B., & Gorgos, K. (in press) The role of internal models and prediction in catching balls. Proceedings of AAAI, Fall 2005. PDF

Droll, J.A., Hayhoe, M.M., Triesch, J., & Sullivan, Brian T. (2005) Task demands control acquisition and storage of visual information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 3(6), 1416-1438. PDF

Aivar, M.P., Hayhoe, M.M., Chizk, C.L. & Mruczek, R.E.B. (2005) Spatial memory and saccadic targeting in a natural task. Journal of Vision, 4, pp. 1-3. PDF

Hayhoe M. & Ballard, D. (2005) Eye movements in natural behavior. TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences, 9(4), 188-193. PDF

Hayhoe, M. Integrating information across saccadic eye movements. In Peterson, M.A., Gillam, B., Sedgwick, H.A. Mental Structure in Visual Perception: Julian Hochberg's Contributions to Our Understanding of the Perception of Pictures, Film, and the World. NY: Oxford University Press. (in press, expected publication: 2005).

Hayhoe, M.M. (2004). Advances in relating eye movements and cognition. Infancy, 6(2), pp. 267-274. PDF

Triesch, J., Ballard, D., Hayhoe, M., & Sullivan, B. (2003). What you see is what you need. Journal of Vision, 3, 86-94. PDF

Shimozaki, S., Zelinsky, G., Hayhoe, H., Merigan, W., & Ballard, D. (2003). Spatial memory and saccade targeting deficits from parietal injury. Neuropsychologia, 41, pp. 1365-1386. PDF

Hayhoe, M.M., Shrivastava, A., Mruczek, R., & Pelz, J.B. (2003). Visual memory and motor planning in a natural task. Journal of Vision, 3(1), 49-63. PDF

Hayhoe, M. (2002) Visual short term memory and motor control. The Brain's Eyes: Neurobiological and Clinical Aspects of Oculomotor Research. Jukka Hy?n?, Doug Munoz, Wolfgang Heide, & Ralph Radach (eds). Progress in Brain Research, 140, Elsevier. 349-363.

Hayhoe, M., Ballard, D., Triesch, J., & Shinoda, H. (2002). Vision in natural and virtual environments. Proceedings, Eye Tracking Research & Application, 7-13. PDF

Rao, R., Zelinsky, G., Hayhoe, M., & Ballard, D. (2002). Eye movements in iconic visual search. Vision Research, 42(11), 1447-1463. PDF

Triesch, J., Sullivan, B., Hayhoe, M., & Ballard, D. (2002). Saccade contingent scene changes in unconstrained virtual reality. Proceedings, Eye Tracking Research & Application, 95-102.

Land, M., & Hayhoe, M. (2001). In what ways do eye movements contribute to everyday activities? Vision Research, special issue on Eye Movements and vision in the Natural World, 41, 3559-3566. PDF

Pelz, J., Hayhoe, M., & Loeber, R. (2001). The coordination of eye, head, and hand movements in a natural task. Experimental Brain Research, 139(3), 266-277. PDF

Shinoda, H., Hayhoe, M., & Shrivastava, A. (2001). What controls attention in natural environments? Vision Research, special issue on Eye Movements and Vision in the Natural World, 41, 3535-3546. PDF

Hayhoe, M. (2000) Visual routines: a functional account of vision. Visual Cognition, special issue on Change Blindness, 7, 43-64.

Karn, K., & Hayhoe, M. (2000). Memory representations guide targeting eye movements in a natural task. Visual Cognition, 7(6), 673-704. PDF

Hayhoe, M., Bensinger, D., & Ballard, D. (1998). Task constraints in visual working memory. Vision Research, 38, 125-137. PDF

Ballard, D., Hayhoe, M., Pook, P., & Rao, R. (1997). Deictic codes for the embodiment of cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20, 723-767. PDF

Karn, K., Moeller, P., & Hayhoe, M. (1997). Reference frames in saccade targeting. Experimental Brain Research, 115, 267-282. PDF

Zelinsky, G., Rao, R., Hayhoe, M., & Ballard, D. (1997). Eye movements reveal the spatio-temporal dynamics of visual search. Psychological Science, 8, 448-453.

Rao, R., Zelinsky, G., Hayhoe, M., & Ballard, D. (1996). Modelling saccade targeting in visual search. In D. Touretzky, M. Mozer, & M. Hasselmo (Eds). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 8, pp. 830-836. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Smeets, J., Hayhoe, M., & Ballard, D. (1996). Influence of hand movements on eye-head coordination. Experimental Brain Research, 109, 434-440.

Ballard, D., Hayhoe, M., & Pelz, J. (1995). Memory representations in natural tasks. Cognitive Neuroscience, 7, 66-80.

Lachter, J., & Hayhoe, M. (1995). Capacity limitations in memory for visual locations. Perception, 24, 1427-1441.

Pelz, J., & Hayhoe, M. (1995). Influence of the visual scene in visual direction constancy. Vision Research, 35, 2267-2275.