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Worth a glance: Using eye movements to investigate the cognitive neuroscience of memory.

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Hannula, Deborah E.·2010·Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

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Results of several investigations indicate that eye movements can reveal memory for elements of previous experience. These effects of memory on eye movement behavior can emerge very rapidly, changing the efficiency and even the nature of visual processing without appealing to verbal reports and without requiring conscious recollection. This aspect of eye movement based memory investigations is particularly useful when eye movement methods are used with special populations (e.g., young children, elderly individuals, and patients with severe amnesia), and also permits use of comparable paradigms in animals and humans, helping to bridge different memory literatures and permitting cross-species generalizations. Unique characteristics of eye movement methods have produced findings that challenge long-held views about the nature of memory, its organization in the brain, and its failures in special populations. Recently, eye movement methods have been successfully combined with neuroimaging techniques such as fMRI, single-unit recording, and magnetoencephalography, permitting more sophisticated investigations of memory. Ultimately, combined use of eye-tracking with neuropsychological and neuroimaging methods promises to provide a more comprehensive account of brain-behavior relationships and adheres to the "converging evidence" approach to cognitive neuroscience.

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  • The record of gaze shifts may provide the oculomotor maps on which these 3D abilities depend.

    “where it may be the record of gaze shifts that provides the oculomotor maps on which these abilities depend (Hannula et al., 2010; Zimmerman and Lappe, 2016; Ryan and Shen, 2020; Wolff and Lappe, 2021).”

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Authors
Hannula, D. E.
Affiliations
University of Wisconsin System (US)
Corresponding author
Hannula, Deborah E.
Venue
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Published
2010
Volume
4
Pages
166-166
ISSN
1662-5161 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2136580022
Cited by
326
References
143
Citations by year
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FWCI
6.01
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
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Funders
  • Canada Research Chairs
  • National Institutes of Health (5r01mh062500-13)
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01‐MH062500, K08MH082116)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
Keywords
eye movements, eye tracking, memory, visual processing, implicit memory, amnesia, cross-species generalization, neuroimaging integration, converging evidence, brain-behavior relationship

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