Eye movements during scene recollection have a functional role, but they are not reinstatements of those produced during encoding.

R Johansson, J Holsanova, R Dewhurst… - … Human perception and …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Current debate in mental imagery research revolves around the perceptual and cognitive
role of eye movements to “nothing”(Ferreira, Apel, & Henderson, 2008; Richardson …

[HTML][HTML] Cognitive and neural principles of a memory bias on preferential choices

PM Kraemer, RA Weilbächer… - Current Research in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Value-based decisions depend on different forms of memory. However, the respective roles
of memory and valuation processes that give rise to these decisions are often vaguely …

The influence of visual attention on memory-based preferential choice

RA Weilbächer, I Krajbich, J Rieskamp, S Gluth - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Many decisions rely on past experiences. Recent research indicates that people's choices
are biased towards choosing better-remembered options, even if these options are …

Covert shifts of attention can account for the functional role of “eye movements to nothing”

A Scholz, A Klichowicz, JF Krems - Memory & Cognition, 2018 - Springer
When trying to remember verbal information from memory, people look at spatial locations
that have been associated with visual stimuli during encoding, even when the visual stimuli …

Eye movements to absent objects during mental imagery and visual memory in immersive virtual reality

S Chiquet, CS Martarelli, FW Mast - Virtual Reality, 2021 - Springer
The role of eye movements in mental imagery and visual memory is typically investigated by
presenting stimuli or scenes on a two-dimensional (2D) computer screen. When questioned …

Less imageable words lead to more looks to blank locations during memory retrieval

A Kumcu, RL Thompson - Psychological Research, 2020 - Springer
People revisit spatial locations of visually encoded information when they are asked to
retrieve that information, even when the visual image is no longer present. Such “looking at …

Episodic traces and statistical regularities: Paired associate learning in typical and dyslexic readers

MW Jones, JR Kuipers, S Nugent, A Miley… - Cognition, 2018 - Elsevier
Learning visual-phonological associations is a key skill underlying successful reading
acquisition. However, we are yet to understand the cognitive mechanisms that enable …

When the eyes have it and when not: How multiple sources of activation combine to guide eye movements during multiattribute decision making.

A Rosner, M Schaffner… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Memory plays a major but underexplored role in judgment and decision making (JDM).
Studying eye movements—especially how people look at empty spatial locations when …

Memory indexing of sequential symptom processing in diagnostic reasoning

G Jahn, J Braatz - Cognitive psychology, 2014 - Elsevier
In diagnostic reasoning, knowledge about symptoms and their likely causes is retrieved to
generate and update diagnostic hypotheses in memory. By letting participants learn about …

When looking back to nothing goes back to nothing

AL Wantz, CS Martarelli, FW Mast - Cognitive processing, 2016 - Springer
Previous research showed that the eyes revisit the location in which the stimulus has been
encoded when visual or verbal information is retrieved from memory. A recent study showed …