Neuroscience and Psychology

Abstract

A wide assortment of eye tracking studies can be found in the increasingly related fields of Neuroscience and Psychology. Topics range from basic re?search in vision science to the investigation of visual exploration in aesthetics (e.g., perception of art). A useful approach to navigating through vast collections of early and contemporary literature is to (for the outset) dissociate high-level cognitive studies from those concerned with a low-level functional view of the brain. In this sense, to use a computational analogy, one can distin?guish between the “hardware” (low-level brain circuitry) on which the “software” (high-level cognition) functions. In a complimentary view of the apparently disparate disciplines, neuroscience identifies the physiological components which are ultimately responsible for perception. In the context of vision and eye movements, knowledge of the physiological organization of the optic tract as well as of cognitive and behavioral aspects of vision is indispensable in obtaining a complete understanding of human vision.