Jolande Fooken
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Jolande Fooken is a cognitive neuroscientist whose research sits at the intersection of visual perception, action planning, and motor control. Her work investigates how the brain integrates visual information with the costs and constraints of real-world movement, particularly in tasks requiring reaching and grasping. A key contribution is her demonstration that visual search is not a purely perceptual process—it is dynamically shaped by the anticipated physical effort of acting on a target. In her highly cited 2023 study, Fooken showed that when obstacles increase the movement cost of reaching for a target, participants’ eye movements and search strategies adapt accordingly, revealing a tight coupling between vision and action. This finding has important implications for understanding naturalistic behavior and for designing human-machine interfaces. With over 7 citations on this work alone, Fooken’s research is gaining recognition for bridging the gap between laboratory-based visual search paradigms and the complexities of real-world action. Her work continues to inform how we think about attention, decision-making, and the embodied nature of perception.
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