Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Pupillometry: The Eye as a Window Into the Mind
This online course teaches a method, called pupillometry, based on eye-tracking technology that can reveal how the human mind works in terms of arousal, attention effort, and the intensity of processing in the brain, when someone perceives, attends, thinks or imagine something. The course introduces the student to what has been achieved so far with pupillometry in different types of research. Students will become familiar with the different technologies and experimental and statistical approache
6 weeks, 3 hours per week
Bruno Laeng
Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology
University of Oslo
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe the neural system behind the pupil response to light
- Reflect on the relevance of using pupillometry in different fields of research
- Compare stationary versus mobile eye-tracking systems in relation to pupillometry
- Identify some of the challenges in working with pupillometry
- Explain possible ethical issues that are related to pupillometry in human participants
- Design a simple pupillometry experiment related to psychological research
- Calculate the most relevant measures in different pupillometry applications
- Contribute with a unique pupillometry study project
- Explore the way the pupillary response has influenced scientific theories and the arts
- Explain the meaning of the pupil as an index of mental activity or effort
Syllabus
- Disciplines where pupillometry can be applied
- Eye-tracking systems for different applications
- Basics of the eye’s anatomy and physiology
- Examples of pupillometry research
- Basics of pre-processing, baselines and statistics
- Ethical issues related to eye tracking and pupillometry on human participants
Issued on 26th November 2023
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