Eye Movements and Active Visual Attention Processes
The eye is not just an organ limited by anatomical and physical boundaries but is solely associated with the sense of sight. Since the Renaissance, the eye has been used in art as a symbol of the viewer's imaginative life. It has also played an important role as a material for understanding the...
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| Language: | English |
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Istanbul University Press
2024-08-01
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| Series: | Psikoloji Çalışmaları |
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| Online Access: | https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/5178ED00FD8C4768BC42AC4FC0686874 |
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| Summary: | The eye is not just an organ limited by anatomical and physical boundaries but is solely associated with the sense of sight. Since the Renaissance, the eye has been used in art as a symbol of the viewer's imaginative life. It has also played an important role as a material for understanding the human mind. Research on the anatomy and movements of the eye has a long history, spanning a wide geographical range from ancient Greece to the civilisations of Babylon, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. Eye movement is a behaviour shared by all animal species with basic visual structures. The fundamental function of this behaviour is to create a stable representation of the visual world on the retina at any given time and to facilitate exploration of the environment. The study of eye movements provides important insights into how organisms perceive the world by revealing how they look at it. Within the repertoire of human eye movements, saccadic and fixational movements are the most frequently measured and studied in attention literature. The eye-tracking method offers an objective measurement approach for testing previously proposed attention hypotheses and allows the investigation of parameters such as where a person looks at any given moment and for how long. These parameters are particularly important for visual attention studies. Through the window opened by the eyes, cognitive psychology and its different disciplines can explore numerous topics related to human visual attention and, consequently, the mind. In addition to its role in psychology, eye tracking remains an important methodological tool in many fields related to human attention and perception mechanisms, such as art, advertising, and industry. This review briefly covers the origins of the eye-tracking technique, followed by the basic mechanics of eye movements. Finally, the study discusses the relationship between eye movements and attentional processes, which are essential for various mental tasks. |
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| ISSN: | 2602-2982 |