I am not an eye specialist, but my son Professor Heithem El-Hodiri, is an active researcher in the area. His address is: Center for Molecular and Human Genetics The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital (formerly Columbus Children’s Research Institute) 700 Children’s Drive Columbus, OH 43205 Phone: (614) 722-2868 (office) (614) 355-3487 (lab) e-mail: [email protected]
actually, I feel your request to be too unspecific. It could have helped, had you sketched out a little more what research pertaining to the "quiet eye-phenomenon" in motor learning/decision making is already know.
There are a lot of groups active in research on the so-called „quiet eye“ phenomenon (check that out on Google Scholar, e.g.). Here, I’d like to recommend two papers by a group from Bern in Switzerland (E.J. Hossner is the head of department, and also on ResearchGate) whoes lab-work I personally appreciate:
The “quiet eye” and motor performance: Task demands matter!
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol 39(5), Oct 2013, 1270-1278
The quiet eye without a target: The primacy of visual information processing.
By Klostermann, André; Kredel, Ralf; Hossner, Ernst-Joachim
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol 40(6), Dec 2014, 2167-2178.
Their results support the assumption that QE affects motor performance, with experimentally prolonged QE durations increasing accuracy in a throwing task. However, it is only under a high information-processing load that a longer QE duration is beneficial for throwing performance.
(1) I understood that you were working on your doctoral thesis. However, it would be much easier for your readers to come up with useful suggestions if you could paraphrase (a) your (preliminary) hypothesis or at least (b) the specific problem area you are interested in. Otherwise the field is too broad, and there are too many publications out there by now already, and researchers active in this area in the meantime are too specialized to figure out what might be useful for your specific needs right now.
If you’re just interested in a general literature survey, however, you’d probably better off looking into some of the scientific literature data bases, like “pubmed”, etc..
(2) As for the two papers I mentioned in my earlier answer, I only have them as a paper version, but not in an electronic format. You’d have to link into the respective journal’s homepage and directly purchase them, or (which I would recommend) go and contact E.-J. Hossner directly here on ResearchGate, and request the resp. full texts. Also, you could address your questions immediately to Ernst Hossner (or one of his collaborators) as real experts in this field of research.
(3) Although I am not directly involved in research on the “quiet eye”-phenomenon myself, it is my impression that the phenomenon as such is not much debated any more. So, recent review papers as well as seminal experimental papers published during the last three to five years are certainly o.k.!
Right now research objective in this field to me appears to shift towards a more detailed scrutiny of how certain components of (a) the object(s) (e.g., form vs. motion), the observer (e.g., visual acuity; attentional focus vs. non-attentive states), and (c) the context (e.g. spatial certainty vs. uncertainty) affect performance. Its all about “from phenomena to mechanisms” now!
I’ll attach a brand new paper just published last months to illustrate what I mean (Vater, C., Kredel, R., Hossner, E.-J.: Detecting single-target changes in multiple object tracking: The case of peripheral vision. Atten. Percept. Psychophys., DOI 10.3758/s13414-016-1078-7).
please find attached another brand-new review paper on quiet eye resarch.
This paper is a target article published in the (new) journal “Current Issues in Sport Science” (CISS), which is the official journal of the sport-scientific societies of Austria (ÖSG) and Switzerland (SGS) (see also http://www.ciss-journal.org).
The journal's editors are preparing a commentary section on this articel 8submission deadline May 25th, 2016). Unitl now the following authors have accepted invitations to write peer commentaries:
Baker & Wattie (Toronto/Ontario), Causer & Gonzalez (Liverpool/London), Davids & Araujo (Sheffield/Lisbon), Enns & Watson (Vancouver/Toronto), Farrow & Panchuk (Melbourne), Foulsham (Essex), Gegenfurtner & Szulewski (Maastricht/Kingston), Helsen (Leuven), Janelle & Mann (Florida), Klostermann, Kredel & Vater (Bern), Rodrigues & Navarro (Sao Paulo), Schorer, Tirp, & Rienhoff (Oldenburg/Münster), Spering & Schütz (Vancouver/Marburg), Williams (London), and Wilson & Vine (Exeter).
May be, this whole discussion once it has been published could inspire you some.. .