摘要：In her article on the origins and current issues in quiet eye (QE) research, reviewing an impressive body of research, Vickers (2016) concludes amongst others that it is important to understand the neural and other processes underlying the QE. Interestingly, the debate on the mechanisms of the QE has received growing interest only recently, with hypotheses from two main theoretical approaches (i.e., cognitive and ecological ones) evolving. What is missing as part of this discussion, however, are perceptual-cognitive approaches and their potential explanatory value with respect to the QE. Following a short summary of the current debate on the theoretical underpinnings of the QE and the main hypotheses that have been proposed so far, we introduce a perceptual-cognitive approach to the QE, and discuss recent findings that point to a perceptual-cognitive explanation of the QE.
