ArticleJournal of cognition2018
Pupillometry: Psychology, Physiology, and Function.
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361 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 850 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Investigating endogenous pain modulation through pupillometry: can pupil size reflect offset analgesia?Pain reports · 2026Article
- Changes in pupillographic and ocular surface parameters following upper eyelid blepharoplasty.International ophthalmology · 2026Observational
- Multitasking boosts human muscular endurance task performance due to elevated arousal.iScience · 2026Article
- Tablet-Camera Iris Landmarks and EEG/PPG-Derived Arousal Indices During Naturalistic Reading: Geometric Confounding and Exploratory Within-Subject Associations.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Reviewing Physiological Measures of Implicit Consumer Response to Food.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Blink Behaviour, Pupil Diameter, and Technical Performance in Elite Male Table Tennis Players: A Wearable Eye-Tracking Study.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Pupil size measurements with two multifunctional devices based on different technologies and an infrared based pupillometer.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2026Article
- The Eyes as a Mirror of the Unconscious: What Pupil Dilation Reveals About Unconscious Analytic Thought in Insight Problem Solving.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
- Physiological Evidence Supporting the Emotional Motivation Account of the Ending Effect: Pupil Diameters Increase Toward the End.Journal of gambling studies · 2026Article
- Effects of Indirect Pupillary Light Reflex Stimulation With Colored Light on Corneal Specular Microscopy Performance in Dogs.Veterinary ophthalmology · 2026Article
- Task-dependent pupillary responses to glossiness and attractiveness judgments.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- Pre-stimulus pupil-linked arousal enhances initial stimulus availability and accelerates decay in iconic memory.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Diagnostic accuracy of objective measures for ocular malingering: A systematic review.Journal of optometry · 2026Review
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Abstract
Pupils respond to three distinct kinds of stimuli: they constrict in response to brightness (the pupil light response), constrict in response to near fixation (the pupil near response), and dilate in response to increases in arousal and mental effort, either triggered by an external stimulus or spontaneously. In this review, I describe these three pupil responses, how they are related to high-level cognition, and the neural pathways that control them. I also discuss the functional relevance of pupil responses, that is, how pupil responses help us to better see the world. Although pupil responses likely serve many functions, not all of which are fully understood, one important function is to optimize vision either for acuity (small pupils see sharper) and depth of field (small pupils see sharply at a wider range of distances), or for sensitivity (large pupils are better able to detect faint stimuli); that is, pupils change their size to optimize vision for a particular situation. In many ways, pupil responses are similar to other eye movements, such as saccades and smooth pursuit: like these other eye movements, pupil responses have properties of both reflexive and voluntary action, and are part of active visual exploration.
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