Jolande Fooken

Jolande Fooken joined the lab as a Post-doc in August 2024. After completing a bachelor's in physics and a master's in biomedical engineering at RWTH Aachen University, Jolande moved to Vancouver, Canada. At the University of British Columbia Jolande was affiliated with the Departments of Computer Science and Vision Sciences and under the supervision of Miriam Spering she received her PhD on the topic of 'Eye movements as indicators of visual and cognitive processing' in July 2019.

Jolande then went on the do a DFG-funded Research Fellowship at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. Together with Randy Flanagan and Jason Gallivan, Jolande worked on 'Gaze and Motor Control Patterns of Coordination'.

Jolande's research focusses on the coordination of eye and hand movements in naturalistic tasks that require quick sensorimotor decisions. In many goal-directed actions humans continuously predict whether, when, and where to interact with visual objects in the environment. Jolande studies how eye and hand movements can be indicative of ongoing sensorimotor and cognitive processes. She is interested in understanding the underlying mechanisms of eye and hand movement control at different stages of sensorimotor processing (from fast reactive motor responses to more deliberate motor outputs), and how the eye and hand movement systems work in synergy in everyday tasks. To study sensorimotor processes, Jolande uses different eye, hand, and body tracking systems.

1. Fooken, J., Balalaie, P., Park, K., Flanagan, J. R., & Scott, S. H. (2024). Rapid eye and hand responses in an interception task are differentially modulated by context-dependent predictability. bioRxiv, 2024-07.

2. Illamperuma, N. H. & Fooken, J., (2024). Towards a functional understanding of gaze in goal-directed action. Journal of Neurophysiology, Editorial Focus on „Sensorimotor prediction is used to direct gaze toward task-relevant locations in a goal-directed throwing task“.

3. Fooken, J., Baltaretu, B.R., Barany, D.A., Diaz, G., Semrau, J.A., Singh, T., & Crawford, J.D. (2023). Perceptual-cognitive integration for goal-directed action in naturalistic environments. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(45), 7511-7522.

4. Moskowitz, J.B., Fooken, J., Castelhano, M. S., Gallivan, J. P., & Flanagan, J.R. (2023). Visual search for reach targets in actionable space is influenced by movement costs imposed by obstacles. Journal of Vision, 23(6), 1-17.

5. Moskowitz, J. B., Berger, S. A., Fooken, J., Castelhano, M. S., Gallivan, J. P., & Flanagan, J.R. (2022). The influence of movement-related costs when searching to act and acting to search. Journal of Neurophysiology, 129(1), 115-130.

6. Kreyenmeier, P., Kaemmer, L., Fooken, J., & Spering, M. (2022). Humans can track but fail to predict accelerating objects. eNeuro. 9(5), 1-15.

7. Kim, A. J., Murch, W. S., Limbrick-Oldfield, E. H., Ferrari, M. A., MacDonald, K. I., Fooken, J., Cherkasova, M.V., Spering, M., Clark, L. (2022). Do pupillary responses during authentic slot machine use reflect arousal or screen luminance fluctuations? A proof-of-concept study. PLoS one. 17(7), e0272070.

8. Fooken, J., Patel, P., McKeown, M.J., & Spering, M. (2021). Preservation of eye movements in Parkinson's disease is stimulus and task specific. Journal of Neuroscience, 42(3), 487-499.

9. Fooken, J., Kreyenmeier, P., & Spering, M. (2021) The Role of Eye Movements in Manual Interception: A Mini-Review. Vision Research, 183, 81-90.

10. Kinjo, H., Fooken, J., & Spering, M. (2020). Do eye movements enhance visual memory retrieval? Vision Research, 176, 80-90.

11. Fooken, J. & Spering, M. (2020). Eye movements as a readout of sensorimotor decision processes. Journal of Neurophysiology, 123(4), 1439-1447.

12. Murch, W. S., Limbrick-Oldfield, E. H., Ferrari, M. A., MacDonald, K. I., Fooken, J., Cherkasova, M. V., Spering, M., & Clark, L. (2020). Zoned in or zoned out? Using mobile eye tracking to probe immersion in slot machine gambling. Addiction, 115(6), 1127-1138.

13. Rolin, R. A., Fooken, J., Spering, M, & Pai, D. K. (2019). Perception of looming motion in virtual reality egocentric interception tasks. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25(10), 3042-3048.

14. Fooken, J. & Spering, M. (2019). Decoding go/no-go decisions from eye movements. Journal of Vision, 9(2), 1-13.

15. Fooken, J., Lalonde, K. M., Mann, G. K., & Spering, M. (2018). Eye movement training is most effective when it involves a task-relevant sensorimotor decision. Journal of Vision, 18(4), 1-18.

16. Kreyenmeier, P., Fooken, J., & Spering, M. (2017). Context effects on smooth pursuit and manual interception of a disappearing target. Journal of Neurophysiology, 118(1), 404-415.

17. Palidis, D. J., Wyder-Hodge, P. A., Fooken, J., & Spering, M. (2017). Distinct eye movement patterns enhance dynamic visual acuity. PLoS one, 12(2), e0172061.

18. Fooken, J., Yeo, S. H., Pai, D. K., & Spering, M. (2016). Eye movement accuracy determines natural interception strategies. Journal of Vision. 16(14), 1-14.