Final Report Summary - EYELEVEL (Levels of cognitive organization in human eye movements)
EYELEVEL contributes to a better understanding of eye movement control (in general and at the level of single fixations) and how this is related to the hierarchical cognitive organization.
It examines
1) what are the neurophysiological mechanisms and involved brain regions responsible for the distractor effect,
2) if and how can different stages of processing expressed in distinct eye movement characteristics explained by the underlying brain activity and
3) how both research lines can converge for an online probing of processing modes?
Research within the project could demonstrate that the combined measurement of eye movements and MEG is technically possible during active vision, even on the level of individual fixations. Ongoing work considers the analysis of particular mechanisms of eye movement behaviour during free visual exploration of natural images by correlating specific gaze patterns with the obtained brain activity.
Web:
https://ltl.tkk.fi/wiki/Sebastian_Pannasch#Marie-Curie_Intra-European_Fellowship