Paavo Rinkkala

Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research

This article seeks to recapture the sensory experiences of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the Finnish Lake District by examining the acoustics of their rock art sites. The sites consist of vertical cliffs rising directly from the lakes, with painted images of humans, boats, and animals, sometimes also drummers (5000-1500 calBC). The acoustic impul...

It is well-established how visual stimuli and self-motion in laboratory conditions reliably elicit retinal-image-stabilizing compensatory eye movements (CEM). Their organization and roles in natural-task gaze strategies is much less understood: are CEM applied in active sampling of visual information in human locomotion in the wild? If so, how? And...

A major unresolved question in understanding visually guided locomotion in humans is whether actions are driven solely by the immediately available optical information (model-free online control mechanisms), or whether internal models have a role in anticipating the future path. We designed two experiments to investigate this issue, measuring spont...

We present a computational model of intermittent visual sampling and locomotor control in a simple yet representative task of a car driver following another vehicle. The model has a number of features that take it beyond the current state of the art in modelling natural tasks, and driving in particular. First, unlike most control theoretical models...

In this paper we present and qualitatively analyze an expert driver's gaze behavior in natural driving on a real road, with no specific experimental task or instruction. Previous eye tracking research on naturalistic tasks has revealed recurring patterns of gaze behavior that are surprisingly regular and repeatable. Lappi (2016) identified in the l...

(http://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4498613.v1) Annotated eye tracking movie, one of five, on one highly experienced driver (a driving school instructor) driving on a low-standard road. From: Lappi Otto, Rinkkala Paavo, Pekkanen Jami (2017). Systematic Observation of an Expert Driver's Gaze Strategy—An On-Road Case Study, Frontiers in Psychology,...