Conference Talks

• Fooken, J., Moraes , R., Flanagan, J.R., & Rothkopf, C.A. (2025). Old hands take more time: Healthy ageing is associated with subtle changes in visuomotor control when grasping and dropping objects. Perception, ECVP 2025.
• Fooken, J., Zhu, T., Gallivan, J.P., & Flanagan, J.R. (2024). Coordination of bimanual movements when acting on separate objects is shaped by competition for gaze. Perception, ECVP 2024.
• Fooken, J., Illamperuma, N.H., & Flanagan, J.R. (2024). Timing of eye and hand movements during reaching depends on functional demands of gaze. Journal of Vision, 24(10), 918.
• Fooken, J. (2023). Adaptive eye-hand coordination in real-world actions. Program No. MIN23.03, Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, D.C.: Society for Neuroscience, 2023. Online.
• Kreyenmeier, P., Kämmer, L., Fooken, J., & Spering, M. (2021). Humans can smoothly pursue but fail to intercept accelerating targets. Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2838.
• Fooken, J., & Spering, M. (2019). Eye Movement Signatures of Go/No-Go Decisions With Different Task Constraints. Perception, 48, 76.
• Fooken, J., & Spering, M. (2019). Eye decide: eye movement initiation relates to decision accuracy in a go/no-go interception task. Journal of Vision, 19(10), 12a.
• Fooken, J., Lalonde, K. M., & Spering, M. (2016). When hand movements improve eye movement performance. Journal of Vision,16(12), 374.

Conference Posters

• Goettker, A., Fooken, J., Locke, S., Gegenfurtner, K., & Mamassian, P. (2025). Limited metacognitive awareness of eye movement accuracy: Insights from saccade and tracking tasks. Symposium 7: Perceiving visual actions: Eye movement awareness and sensorimotor control in active vision at the European Conference on Visual Perception, Mainz, Germany. Online.
• Fooken, J. (2025). Eye-hand coordination in multiple object interception. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen: TeaP, Frankfurt, Germany.
• Fooken, J., Zhu, T., Piekkola, B., Gallivan, J.P., & Flanagan, J.R. (2023). The coordination of left-and right-hand movements when acting on separate objects is shaped by competition for gaze. Program No. 156.02/FF8. Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, D.C.: Society for Neuroscience, 2023. Online.
• Fooken, J., Johansson, R.S., & Flanagan, J.R. Adaptive gaze allocation when manipulating and monitoring the environment in parallel. Program No. 2D-30. 31st Annual Meeting, Dublin, IR: Society for the Neural Control of Movement, 2022. Online.
• Kreyenmeier, P., Spering, M., & Fooken, J. (2023). Action-response mode modulates go/no-go decision accuracy. Journal of Vision, 23(9), 5818.
• Fooken, J., Johansson, R.S., & Flanagan, J.R. Adaptive gaze allocation when simultaneously manipulating and monitoring the environment. Journal of Vision, 22(14), 4388.
• Fooken, J., Patel, P., Jones, C.B., McKeown, M.J., & Spering, M. (2021). Eye movement deficits in Parkinson’s patients are compensated during go/no-go interceptions. Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2869.
• Kinjo, H., Fooken, J., & Spering, M. (2019). Are eye movements beneficial for memory retrieval? Journal of Vision, 19(10), 39.
• Fooken, J., Mann, G.K., Jones, C.B., McKeown, M.J., & Spering, M. (2018). Eye and hand movement characteristics during rapid go/no-go decisions in Parkinson’s disease. Program No. 399.19/LL2. 2018 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2018, Online.
• Fooken, J. & Spering, M. (2018). Pursuit eye movements enhance decision making and hitting accuracy in a go/no-go manual interception task. Journal of Vision, 18(10), 596.
• Spering, M. & Fooken, J. (2017). Eye movement signatures of decision making and hand movement accuracy in a go-no go manual interception task. Journal of Vision, 17(10), 813.
• Pai, D. K., Rolin, R. A., Fooken, J., & Spering, M. (2017). Time to Contact Estimation in Virtual Reality. Journal of Vision, 17(10), 417.
• Kreyenmeier, P., Fooken, J., & Spering, M. (2016). Similar effects of visual context dynamics on eye and hand movements. Journal of Vision, 16(12), 457-457.
• Fooken, J., Yeo, S.-H., Pai, D. K., & Spering, M. (2014). Accurate smooth pursuit eye movements improve hand movements in a manual interception task. Program No. 533.12/HH2. 2014 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, D.C.: Society for Neuroscience, 2014. Online.

Workshop Presentations

• Fooken, J., Midlagajni, N., & Rothkopf, C.A. (2025). Eye movement patterns when pouring liquid to match the fill level in two glasses. Poster at Gordon Research Conference on Eye Movements. Mount Holyoke College, MA, USA.
• Illamperuma, N.H., Flanagan, J.R., & Fooken, J. (2024, March). Timing of eye and hand movements during reaching depends on functional demands of gaze. Talk presented at the Women in Neuro Conference, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
• Balalaie, P., Park, K., Scott, S.H., & Fooken, J. (2023, December). Investigation of eye-hand coordination during rapid interception. Poster presented at the Vision Research Conference: The new vistas in vision research, York University, ON, Canada.
• Fooken, J., Johansson, R.S., & Flanagan, J.R. (2022, June). Adaptive eye-hand coordination when manipulating and monitoring the environment in paralle. Poster presented at the Vision Research Conference: From Picture to Reality, from Observer to Agent, York University, ON, Canada.
• Fooken, J., Johansson, R.S., & Flanagan, J.R. (2022, May). Adaptive gaze allocation when simultaneously manipulating and monitoring the environment. Poster presented at the Centre for Vision Science Symposium on Active Vision, Rochester, NY, USA.
• Fooken, J., & Spering, M. (2019, July). Pursuit initiation as the earliest readout of decision formation. Talk at Gordon Research Conference on Eye Movements. Lewiston, ME.
• Fooken, J. & Spering, M. (2018, May). To swing or not to swing? The role of eye movements and simple heuristics when making ultra-fast decisions in a go/no-go manual interception task. Talk at Satellite 1: CAPnet/CPS of the 12th Annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• Fooken, J. & Spering, M. (2016, June). Eye movements predict hand movements of baseball palyers in track-intercept task. Talk at skill acquisition workshop at the Annual Meeting of the North American Society of sport Psychology & Physical Activity (NASPSPA). Montreal, QC.
• Fooken, J., Yeo, S.-H., Pai, D. K., & Spering, M. (2015, July). Accurate smooth pursuit eye movements lead more accurate manual interceptions. Poster at Gordon Research Conference on Eye Movements. Bentley University, MA, USA.
• Fooken, J., Yeo, S.-H., Pai, D. K., & Spering, M. (2015, May). Accurate smooth pursuit eye movements lead to earlier and more accurate manual interceptions. Poster at Satellite 1: CAPnet/CPS of the 9th Annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Invited Talks

• On the coordination of eye and hand movements. Hosted by Karl Gegenfurtner, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany. February 18, 2025.
• Patterns of eye-hand coordination in multi-tasking. Hosted by Loes van Dam and Thomas Wallis in Computational Cognitive Science Colloquium, TU Darmstadt, Germany. December 5, 2024.
• Adaptive eye-hand coordination in real-world actions that compete for gaze. Uncertainty in Sensory Processing and Action Control Workshop, Schloss Rauischholzhausen, Germany. August 8, 2023.
• Acting while perceiving: Adaptive eye-hand coordination in multi-tasking. Hosted by Tarkeshwar Singh in Action Club Talk Series, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States. March 24, 2023.
• Acting while perceiving: Adaptive eye-hand coordination in multi-tasking. Hosted by the Centre for Neuroscience Studies Seminar Series, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada. January 18, 2023.
• Acting while perceiving: Adaptive eye-hand coordination in multi-tasking. Hosted by Alexander Goettker in Current Topics in Perception and Cognition seminar series, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany. December 14, 2022
• Eye-hand coordination in goal-directed behaviour. Hosted by Markus Lappe, Westfälische Wilhelms-University, Münster, Germany. December 14, 2021.
• Eye-hand coordination during visually-guided actions. Hosted by Anita Tusche, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. November 24, 2021.
• Preservation of eye movements in Parkinson’s disease is stimulus and task specific. Hosted by Stephanie Rossit and Fraser Smith, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom. November 10, 2021.
• Preservation of eye movements in Parkinson’s disease is stimulus and task specific. Hosted by Ulrich Ettinger, Bonn University, Germany. October 26, 2021.
• Adaptive eye-hand coordination during visually-guided actions. Hosted by Katja Fiehler, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany. October 18, 2021.
• Adaptive eye-hand coordination supports vision and action. Hosted by Michael J. Carter, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and Joshua Cashaback, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States, August 5, 2021
• Adaptive eye-hand coordination during visually-guided actions. Hosted by James T. Enns, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. June 18, 2021.
• Decoding sensorimotor decisions from eye movements. Hosted by Martin Rolfs, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, September 18, 2020.
• Eye movement signatures during sensorimotor decisions. Hosted by Tobias Donner, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany, June 3, 2020.
• Eye movements as indicators of visual and sensorimotor processing. Hosted by Philippe Lefèvre, School of Engineering. Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, July 23, 2019.
• Linking eye movements to visual predictions. Centre for Neuroscience. Hosted by Randy Flanagan, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, February 20, 2019.
• Linking eye movements to visual predictions. Hosted by Stefanie Becker, School of Psychology. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, August 20, 2018.