CORRELATION OF EYE MOVEMENTS WITH THE LEVEL OF VISUAL MEMORY
CORRELATION OF EYE MOVEMENTS WITH THE LEVEL OF VISUAL MEMORY

Summary/Abstract: Memory, which is known as one of the most important sensory processes, is the psychic process through which information is stored, protected from time degradation, accessed and easily updated when necessary. Located at the basis of human evolution and cognition, memory is in a tight interaction and interdependence with all other psychic processes, with which it has bidirectional influence. The human sensory system, through its visual, auditive, olfactory, taste and kinetic sensors, is the main gate of entry for information from the environment. Both in traditional learning and in the use of e-learning platforms, a visual system operating within optimal parameters is responsible for over 70% of information received. Eye-tracking, a technology now widely used, allows for easy identification of visual and behavioural problems, which could pose significant consequences both on the normal development of the individual and also memory. The first part of this paper succintly presents the typologies of mono and bi-ocular movements, concentration capabilities, visual axes convergence during fixation and accommodation, with regards to different memory tasks. The second part of the paper proposes the development and implementation of a methodology for correlating ocular movement, as supervised through an eye-tracking system, with the recognition capacity of the characteristics for some visual stimuli. Observations and conclusions relating to the modelling and correlation of the visual mechanism with the level and type of memory used, aimed at the understanding of information to be stored and processed by long term memory, is presented in the third part of the paper.

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