Eye movements: The past 25 years

By Eileen Kowler. Vision Research, 2011

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This article reviews the past 25 of research on eye movements (1986–2011). Emphasis is on three oculomotor behaviors: gaze control, smooth pursuit and saccades, and on their interactions with vision. Focus over the past 25 years has remained on the fundamental and classical questions: What are the mechanisms that keep gaze stable with either stationary or moving targets? How does the motion of the image on the retina affect vision? Where do we look – and why – when performing a complex task? How can the world appear clear and stable despite continual movements of the eyes? The past 25 years of investigation of these questions has seen progress and transformations at all levels due to new approaches (behavioral, neural and theoretical) aimed at studying how eye movements cope with real-world visual and cognitive demands. The work has led to a better understanding of how prediction, learning and attention work with sensory signals to contribute to the effective operation of eye movements in visually rich environments.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology

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Review of Eye Tracking Metrics Involved in Emotional and Cognitive Processes (2021, background): “Saccadic movements or saccades are called the instantaneous and ballistic changes of the eyes between fixation points [23].”
What do we see out of the corner of our eye? The role of visual pivots and gaze anchors in sport (2019, background): “…or at least disturb visual information processing shortly before, during, and shortly after, the actual saccade and thus lead to a reduced ability to detect objectmotion or object-displacement changes (for reviews, see Chen-Harris, Joiner, Ethier, Zee, & Shadmehr, 2008; Kowler, 2011; Wurtz, 2008).”
Pupillometry: Psychology, Physiology, and Function (2018, background): “The saccadic and smooth-pursuit eye movements that control gaze direction have been extensively studied (e.g. Kowler, 2011).”
Visual search (2010, neutral): “Once the visual display is present for an extended period of time, recording eye movements can be an instructive way to examine the process of search (Kowler, 2011; Sanders & Donk, 1996; Tatler, 2009).”
STNet: Selective Tuning of Convolutional Networks for Object Localization (2017, background): “Visual attention has two modes of execution [4, 14]: Overt attention attempts to compensate for the lack of visual acuity through2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops”
Attention and choice: a review on eye movements in decision making. (2013, background): “Several factors have been identified that override attention capture by visual saliency, such as semantic or contextual cues about a visual scene, feature based attention, object representations, task demands, and rewards for task performance (Kowler, 2011).”
Saliency-based Sequential Image Attention with Multiset Prediction (2017, background): “Covert attention precedes eye movements, and is intuitively used to monitor the environment and guide eye movements to salient regions [6, 21].”
Visual attention: The past 25 years (2011, background): “The combination of advances in psychophysics, neurophysiology, neuroimaging and modeling has begun to provide a mechanistic characterization of attention, which lies at the crossroads between perception and cognition.”