In the first Cognitive Psychology post, I will discuss eye gaze: its functions, its meaning and what information about deeper cognitive processes it could provide.
There are many ways in which eye gaze could be measured:
> Frequency of eye gaze
> Mutual gaze (Rubin, 1970)
> Blink rate
> Pupil dilation (Hess, 1972)
> Eye expression
Eye Tracking technology becomes increasingly wide-spread, making it possible to see with incredible precision, for how long exactly and in which sequence a person looks at every particular place of a picture/video etc. This technology opened many new opportunities - including studying children with autism and other developmental abnormalities, and how their gazing patterns differ from typically developing children. I will discuss some of the recent research in this field further down in this post. I will also talk about gaze aversion, and its implications for primary education.
There are many ways in which eye gaze could be measured:
> Frequency of eye gaze
> Mutual gaze (Rubin, 1970)
> Blink rate
> Pupil dilation (Hess, 1972)
> Eye expression
Eye Tracking technology becomes increasingly wide-spread, making it possible to see with incredible precision, for how long exactly and in which sequence a person looks at every particular place of a picture/video etc. This technology opened many new opportunities - including studying children with autism and other developmental abnormalities, and how their gazing patterns differ from typically developing children. I will discuss some of the recent research in this field further down in this post. I will also talk about gaze aversion, and its implications for primary education.