Eye Movement Training (EMT) is a form of training
aimed at improving the visual functioning and perceptual
skills needed to perform perceptual motor
skills. The rationale for EMT is that improving visual
function will lead to improvements in the performance of perceptual-motor skills that rely on these functions.
EMT exists in two forms: vision training (VT; training
the oculomotor functioning of the eye) and gaze behavior
training (GBT; training the location of gaze in
space; see also Page, 2013). Vision training typically
involves visual exercises that stress the oculomotor
musculature of the eye responsible for visual functions
such as eye movements, lens accommodation and pupillary
response. These functions underpin visual processes
such as depth perception, visual acuity, and
dynamic acuity. Gaze behavior training (GBT) involves
guiding subjects to direct their gaze to locations within
a scene that are rich with information needed accurately
to perform anticipation (Williams & Grant, 1999), decision
making (Williams & Burwitz, 1993) and motor
skills (Vine, Masters, McGrath, Bright, & Wilson,
2012). Quiet eye training (see this edition) is a form of
GBT. GBT, as with Quiet Eye Training, can be performed
in a Feed-back (viewing your own eye movements
through eye tracking technology) or Feed-
Forward (viewing the eye movements of an expert performer
of the same task) fashion.
