Eyes on the Mind: Exploring Cognition with Eye-Tracking and Pupillometry

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Eye tracking and pupillometry are widely used methods in psychological and cognitive neuroscience research. This laboratory course provides foundational knowledge and practical experience in designing, conducting, analyzing, and interpreting eye tracking experiments to study cognition. The course integrates lectures with hands on laboratory work, including experimental design, data collection, statistical analysis, and communication of findings through written and oral reports. Although the course centers on empirical research using eye tracking as a methodological framework, the skills developed extend well beyond this specific technique. Students will engage with core principles of experimental design, quantitative analysis, and scientific reasoning that generalize across research domains. In parallel, the course addresses conceptual, methodological, practical, and ethical issues that arise in the design, execution, and interpretation of empirical research more broadly.