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Ten adult male subjects participated in an experiment in which they simultaneously visually tracked a jumpwise moving target and identified randomly generated auditory dots and dashes. Results indicated there was both an elimination of discrete saccades and a shortening of eye movement paths. It was also observed that the difficulty of the visual tracking task and the concurrent auditory task showed effects that were not independent of each other. Results could be construed to support both a divided attention and an opponent-process visual processing model.
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Support for this research was provided by the Man-Vehicle Systems Research Division, NASA/Ames Research Center, the U.S. Air Force Human Resources Laboratory, and the U.S. Air Force Rome Air Development Center. However, no endorsement of any agency should necessarily be implied. The authors express their appreciation to Donna L. Miller, Informatics, Inc., and to Bill Schelker and Ed Sanderlin of AFHRL for technical assistance.
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Malmstrom, F.V., Reed, L.E. & Weber, R.J. Saccadic eye movements during a concurrent auditory task. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 21, 31–34 (1983). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329946
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