Vision and eye movements

The study of eye movements has fascinated researchers for many years. We explore our visual world and interact with it through saccades –which move the gaze from one point of the visual field to another– and fixations –during which information is processed. Characterizing the temporal and spatial course of ocular exploration allows us to better understand the links between perception, action and cognition. Objects of study as such or tools for the investigation of cognition, eye movements have always been at the heart of fundamental, clinical or applied research. This is particularly the case within the Institute of Psychology where research on eye movements has never ceased from the early work in experimental psychology in the 1960s to current research. The celebration of the centenary of the Institute is an opportunity to honor this long tradition of studies on eye movements.