In the past few years, there has been an explosion
of eye movement research in cognitive science and
neuroscience. This has been due to the availability of
'off the shelf' eye trackers, along with software to
allow the easy acquisition and analysis of eye movement
data. Accompanying this has been a realisation that eye
movement data can be informative about many different
aspects of perceptual and cognitive processing. Eye
movements have been used to examine the visual and
cognitive processes underpinning a much broader range of
human activities, including, language production,
dialogue, human computer interaction, driving behaviour,
sporting performance, and emotional states. Finally, in
the past thirty years, there have been real advances in
our understanding of the neural processes that underpin
eye movement behaviour. The Oxford Handbook of Eye
Movements provides the first comprehensive review of the
entire field of eye movement research. In over fifty
chapters, it reviews the developments that have so far
taken place, the areas actively being researched, and
looks at how the field is likely to devlop in the coming
years. The first section considers historical and
background material, before moving onto section 2 on the
neural basis of eye movements. The third and fourth
sections looks at visual cognition and eye movements and
eye movement pathology and development. The final
sections consider eye movements and reading and language
processing and eye movements. Bringing together
cutting edge research from and international team of
leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and vision
researchers, this book is the definitive reference work
in this field.
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