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This volume contains the proceedings of the Ninth European
Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM 9), held in Ulm, Germany, on
September 23-26, 1997. ECEM 9 con tinued a series of conferences
initiated by Rudolf Groner of Bern, Switzerland, in 1981 which,
from its very beginning, has brought together scientists from very
diverse fields with a common interest in eye movements. About 40 of
the papers presented at ECEM 9 have been selected for presentation
in full length while others are rendered in condensed form. There
is a broad spectrum of motives why people have become involved in,
and fas cinated by, eye movement research. Neuroscientists have
been allured by the prospect of understanding anatomical findings,
single unit recordings, and the sequels of experimental lesions in
terms of the clearly defined system requirements and the well
documented be havioural repertoire of the oculomotor system. Others
have been attracted by the richness of this repertoire and its
dependence on an intricate hierarchy of factors spanning from
"simple" reflexes to visual pattern recognition and spatio-temporal
prediction. Neurolo gists, neuro-ophthalmologists and
neuro-otologists have long standing experience with eye movements
as sensitive indicators of lesions in the brain stem, the midbrain,
and the cere bellum. By studying oculomotor malfunctions they have
made, and are continuing to make, important contributions to our
understanding of oculomotor functions."
This volume contains the proceedings of the Ninth European
Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM 9), held in Ulm, Germany, on
September 23-26, 1997. ECEM 9 con tinued a series of conferences
initiated by Rudolf Groner of Bern, Switzerland, in 1981 which,
from its very beginning, has brought together scientists from very
diverse fields with a common interest in eye movements. About 40 of
the papers presented at ECEM 9 have been selected for presentation
in full length while others are rendered in condensed form. There
is a broad spectrum of motives why people have become involved in,
and fas cinated by, eye movement research. Neuroscientists have
been allured by the prospect of understanding anatomical findings,
single unit recordings, and the sequels of experimental lesions in
terms of the clearly defined system requirements and the well
documented be havioural repertoire of the oculomotor system. Others
have been attracted by the richness of this repertoire and its
dependence on an intricate hierarchy of factors spanning from
"simple" reflexes to visual pattern recognition and spatio-temporal
prediction. Neurolo gists, neuro-ophthalmologists and
neuro-otologists have long standing experience with eye movements
as sensitive indicators of lesions in the brain stem, the midbrain,
and the cere bellum. By studying oculomotor malfunctions they have
made, and are continuing to make, important contributions to our
understanding of oculomotor functions."
The book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of
current research on cognitive and applied aspects of eye movements.
The contents include peer-reviewed chapters based on a selection of
papers presented at the 11th European Conference on Eye Movements
(Turku, Finland 2001), supplemented by invited contributions. The
ECEM conference series brings together researchers from various
disciplines with an interest to use eye-tracking to study
perceptual and higher order cognitive functions.
The contents of the book faithfully reflect the scope and diversity
of interest in eye-tracking as a fruitful tool both in basic and
applied research. It consists of five sections: visual information
processing and saccadic eye movements; empirical studies of reading
and language production; computational models of eye movements in
reading; eye-tracking as a tool to study human-computer
interaction; and eye movement applications in media and
communication research.
Each section is concluded by a commentary chapter by one of the
leading authorities in the field. These commentaries discuss and
integrate the contributions in the section and provide an expert
view on the most significant present and future developments in the
respective areas.
The book is a reference volume including a large body of new
empirical work but also principal theoretical viewpoints of leading
research groups in the field.
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