Objective: The purpose of this study was to look at a systematic review on the relationships of
saccadic eye movements and cognition. Through this comprehensive study, we have to compare
the studies.
Methods: We systematically examined papers published in journal from 1995 to 2015, using
KERIS. Main words to examine are saccadic eye movements, cognitive function, cognition,
relationship, saccade program, etc.
Results: 6 studies were selected, All of them were saccadic eye movements. Eye movements and
cognitive function have correlation. Age from 5 to 65 years from the studies, they found the
relationships between cognition and saccade(p<.05). However, the results demonstrated some
limitations. First, there were variation in large of age spectrum. Second, the populations
were small. Therefore, in the future study, saccadic eye movements study apply to variety of
interventions to separate experimental group and control group as cohort study, and majority
of patients is needed on occupational therapy.
Conclusions: In the future study, the use of eye movements apply to a variety of interventions
and majority of patients is needed for the effect of cognitive function improvements. If occupational
therapists can obtain knowledge and make a protocol for cognitive program.