2005-2005: " Pursuit eye movements, colour and motion perception "
Postdoc
2002-2005: Virtual Reality lab, Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, NY, USA Center for Visual Science
" Eye movements and action in extended tasks "
PhD
1998-2002: University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, Dept. Experimental Psychology
" Eye movements and visual search in everyday tasks "
I am interested in the general question of how we use eye, head and hand movements in everyday life. As this is where we usually use our brains, then addressing questions such as "How do we use vision in unrestrained activities" will help answer questions about the mechanisms that contribute to brain processing in general. My research within "active vision" assumes that we often use eye movements in a task specific fashion to obtain visual information for our current goals. Theoretically, my work addresses aspects of spatial orientation, cognition, visuomotor coordination and perception. I am also interested in the mechanisms that contribute to the perception of motion and colour. The real world is full of colour and motion, and I believe that these cues contribute much more to our percepts than we currently know.
If you believe that saccadic eye movements reflect specific strategies that have evolved over time, then you might accept (as I do) that such strategies can be investigated through the observation of behaviour when faced with different goals and that some strategies can perhaps be modeled in various ways - using game theory and reinforcement learning paradigms for example.
Hayhoe, MM., Mennie, N., & Sullivan, B. & Gorgos, K. (in prep) Predictive eye movements when catching balls.
Mennie, N., Hayhoe, M., & Sullivan, B., (under review). Look-ahead fixations: predictive eye movements in natural tasks.
Hayhoe MM., Mennie, N., Sullivan, B. & Gorgos, K. (2005) The role of Internal Models and Prediction in Catching balls. American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2005 Fall Symposium, From Reactive to Anticipatory Cognitive Embodied Systems. Conference paper.
Hayhoe MM., Droll, J., Mennie, N.(to appear) Learning where to look. In R. van Gompel, M. Fischer, W. Murray, & R. Hill (Eds.), Eye movement research: Insights into mind and brain. Elsevier.
Mennie, N., Land, M., & Rusted, J., (in prep). The influence of expectancy on saccades during visual search in a natural 3D environment.
Mennie, N., Land, M., & Rusted, J., (under review). The center-of-gravity effect in search for real objects.
Forde, E.M.E., Rusted, J., Humphreys, G.W., Mennie, N. & Land, M. (under review) The eyes have it: An exploration of eye movements in action disorganization syndrome.
Canosa, R.L., Pelz, J.B., Mennie, N.R., and Peak, J. (2003). High-level aspects of oculo-motor control during viewing of natural-task images. Proceedings IS&T/SPIE 15th Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging VIII ,5007, B.E. Rogowitz and T.N. Pappas (Eds). conference paper.
Land, M., Mennie, N., & Rusted, J. (1999) The roles of vision and eye movements in the control of activities of daily living. Perception: 28, 1311-1328.
Doctoral Thesis
Mennie, N. (2002) Eye movements and visual search in everyday tasks. Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, UK.
Conferences, Talks & Posters.
Chajka, K., Hayhoe, MM., Sullivan, B., Pelz, J., Mennie, N., Droll, J. (2006) Predictive Eye Movements in Squash. 6th Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida. Poster.
Braun, D., Mennie, N., & Gegenfurtner, K. (2006) Pursuit eye movements at isoluminance. 6th Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida. Poster.
Braun, D., Mennie, N. & Gegenfurtner, K. (2005) Pursuit eye movements to equiluminant targets. Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual meeting. Washington, USA. Poster Presentation.
Mennie, N., Hayhoe, MM., Sullivan, B. (2005) Visual strategies when catching a ball. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). A Coruna, Spain. Poster Presentation.
Mennie, N. N., Hayhoe, M. M., Stupak, N., & Sullivan, B. (2005). Sources of information for catching balls. 5th Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida. Oral Presentation. [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 5(8), 383a, http://journalofvision.org/5/8/383/, doi:10.1167/5.8.383.
Mennie, N., Hayhoe, M. & Sullivan, B., (2004) Looking ahead can influence the eye but not the hand. 4th Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida. Poster Presentation. [Abstract]
http://journalofvision.org/4/8/833/, doi:10.1167/4.8.833
Hayhoe, M., Mennie, N., Sullivan, B., Gorgos, K. & Semrau, J., (2004) The role of prediction in catching balls. 4th Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida. Oral Presentation. [Abstract]
http://journalofvision.org/4/8/156/, doi:10.1167/4.8.156
Hayhoe M., Mennie N., Aivar P., Sullivan B. & Jovancovic, J., (2003) Head and hand correlation in real and virtual model construction tasks, 12th European Conference on Eye Movements, Dundee, UK. Oral presentation.
Mennie N., Hayhoe, M., & Sullivan B., (2003) Is it important to look ahead of the action when performing a natural task? 12th European Conference on Eye Movements, Dundee, UK. Oral presentation.
Mennie, N., Hayhoe, M., Sullivan, B., & Walthew, C. (2003) Look Ahead Fixations and Visuo-Motor Planning. 3rd Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida. Oral presentation. Journal of Vision, 3(9), 123a, http://journalofvision.org/3/9/123/, doi:10.1167/3.9.123.
Mennie, N., Land, M., & Rusted, J. (2001) Natural Objects and Visual Search. 11th European Conference on Eye Movements. Univ. of Turku, Finland. Poster presentation.
Mennie, N. (2000) The use of vision by a de-afferented individual in everyday action. 2nd Symposia on The Cognitive Processes Underpinning Everyday Actions. Univ. of Aston, UK. Oral presentation.
Mennie, N., Land, M., & Rusted, J. (1999) Eye movements in everyday tasks. British Psychological Society, Cognitive Section, XVI Annual Conference. Univ. of York, UK. Oral presentation.
Land, M., Mennie, N., & Rusted, J. (1999) The role of eye movements in activities of everyday life. Experimental Psychology Society Meeting. Univ. of Durham, UK. Oral presentation.
Land, M., Mennie, N., & Rusted, J. (1998) Eye Movements and the roles of vision in activities of daily living: making a cup of tea. Oral presentation. Invest. Opthalmol. Visual. Sci. 39: S457 ARVO abstract 2094.
