Sport And Exercise Psychology: A Critical Introduction

Figure 6.3 Eye-tracking technology

allows psychologists to study visual

search behaviour in expert athletes

Source: Courtesy of Andrew Flood, Department of Psychology,

University College, Dublin

The ASL system is a video-based monocular corneal-reflection system that measures
the perceiver’s point of gaze with respect to video images recorded by an infra-red eye
camera and a scene camera (which is usually floor-mounted). This system works by
detecting two features, namely, the position of the pupil and the corneal reflex, in a video

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