Moving one's eyes to another object. Involves a rapid, jerky movement.

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- Overt and Covert attention
- Fixation
- Saccadic eye movement
- Visual scanning

Focuses of research on eye movement

Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience. Nelson Education.


Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience

The movements of someones eyes to sift through different visual stimuli. When one walks into the room, they may visually scan it to see who is there and what the room consists of.

Visual scanning

Shifting attention can be classified by eye-movement by:
- Covert attention
- Overt attention

Overt and Covert attention

Pausing (fixating) eye movement on an object. 

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