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Pupillometry: The Eye as a Window Into the Mind 

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Overview

Examine the science of pupillometry and explore the eye as a window into the mind with the University of Oslo.

Duration

6 weeks

Total fee

2,763

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Pupillometry: The Eye as a Window Into the Mind
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Pupillometry: The Eye as a Window Into the Mind
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Highlights

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Course details

Skills you will learn
More about this course
  • On this six-week course, you’ll explore both pupillometry and eye tracking methods in depth, before investigating some interesting and unusual applications of this far-reaching research method
  • Examining what can be learned from measuring pupil dilations, you’ll reflect on what pupil dilation can tell us about our emotions, our mental efforts, and more
  • You’ll then move on to the anatomy and physiology of the eye, delving into eye structure and the neuroscience of pupils
  • With this introductory knowledge, you’ll be confident in eye control and reactions, and begin to identify some of the insights that pupillometry can deliver about the human body
  • You’ll then move on to methods in pupillometry, learning how to gather quality data and gaining an overview of baselines and statistics
  • You’ll discover its use in musicology, developmental psychology, and psycholinguistics, and reflect on the ethical and legal implications of such research
  • By the end of this course, you’ll have an overview of pupillometry and eye tracking
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Pupillometry: The Eye as a Window Into the Mind
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Curriculum

Welcome to the course

Introduction

Pupillometry

The pupil and mental effort

Reflection

Biology, anatomy and physiology of the eye

Eye anatomy

Eye control

The neuroscience of pupils

Reflection

The eye-tracking method

Introduction

Calibration

Gaze analysis

Reflection

The pupillometry method

Introduction

Pre-processing

Baselines

Statistics

Reflection

Multidisciplinary pupillometry research

Introduction

Pupillometry of musicians

Pupillometry of music listeners

Pupillometry in developmental psychology

Pupillometry in psycholingustics

Reflection

Data management and ethical aspects

Introduction

Data management

Ethics

Intellectual property rights

Reflection

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