Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
Author: Marcos Miguel Meo | email: marcos.meo@uns.edu.ar
Marcos Meo 1°, Jessica Del Punta 1°, Gustavo Gasaneo 2°
1° Universidad Nacional del Sur – IFISUR, 8000 Bahía Blanca, Argentina
2° Centro Integral de Neurociencias Aplicadas, 8000 Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Human cognition remains one of the greatest enigmas of science. Many important cognitive processes, such as reading, require an input of information based on vision. That is why in this work we will address the study of the characteristics of eye movements associated with various cognitive processes. Recently, it has been reported that a particular characteristic of biological systems is their allometry, that is, a kind of long-term memory that governs the equilibrium of the system. This characteristic is linked to the way in which the system moves or evolves. It has been shown that the variability of systems is related to their fractal nature. To our knowledge, this behavior has not been discussed in terms of cognitive processes. In this work we show that each cognitive process has a characteristic allometry which is associated with a specific fractality. This association provides quantitative parameters that characterize globally the different cognitive processes and particularly the peculiarities of each individual.