A computer system for processing eye-movement records

Kundel, Harold L.; Nodine, Calvin F.

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“…Computers can dramatically reduce the time and cost of data analysis and rapidly provide printouts with the reader's fixations marked in terms of duration and sequence. Kundel and Nodine (1973) have described a system by which photographic records can be scored by computer. But a far more efficient technique is to record the data on-line and simply program the computer to print out (1) the subject's raw data, (2) the passage the subject read, marking the location, duration, and sequence of fixations, and (3) summary data such as means and medians.…”

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Eye movements and cognitive psychology: On-line computer approaches to studying visual information processing

Rayner

1979

Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation

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Advantages of using on-line computers to record eye movement data are discussed. These advantages include computer scoring of eye movement data, greater accuracy in identifying the location of a fixation, greater accuracy in determining timing variables such as saccade duration and fixation duration, and the capability of controlling stimulus presentation as a function of eye location. Emphasis is placed on the latter of these advantages. The characteristics of an on-line eye movement recording system are briefly described, followed by a description of the research using such a system to investigate reading, integration of information across eye movements, eccentric vision, and picture processing and visual search.

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Eye movements and cognitive psychology: On-line computer approaches to studying visual information processing

Rayner

1979

Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation

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“…The interested reader is invited to read the excellent articles by Young and Sheena. The single most important technological advance for eye-movement recording within the past few years is the widespread use of on-line computers. Computers have been utilized to score eye-movement data (Kundel & Nodine, 1973), which in the past required rather cumbersome and time-consuming hand scoring of photographic records (Mackworth, 1967; or strip-chart recordings. However, far more significant than this improvement in scoring techniques is the fact that many eye-movement recording devices can be interfaced with a computer to provide continuous on-line recording of eye movements (see Loftus, Mathews, Bell, & Poltrock, 1975;McConkie & Rayner, 1973;McConkie, Zola, Wolverton, & Burns, in press;Reder, 1973;Russo, 1975;Vaughan, 1975).…”

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Eye movements in reading and information processing.

Rayner¹

1978

Psychological Bulletin

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Recent studies of eye movements in reading and other information processing tasks, such as music reading, typing, visual search, and scene perception, are reviewed. The major emphasis of the review is on reading as a specific example of cognitive processing. Basic topics discussed with respect to reading are (a) the characteristics of eye movements, (b) the perceptual span, (c) integration of information across saccades, (d) eye movement control, and (e) individual differences (including dyslexia). Similar topics are discussed with respect to the other tasks examined. The basic theme of the review is that eye movement data reflect moment-to-moment cognitive processes in the various tasks examined. Theoretical and practical considerations concerning the use of eye movement data are also discussed.Many studies using eye movements to investigate cognitive processes have appeared over the past 20 years. In an earlier review, I (Rayner, 1978b) argued that since the mid-1970s we have been in a third era of eye movement research and that the success of research in the current era would depend on the ingenuity of researchers in designing interesting and informative studies. It would appear from the vast number of studies using eye movement data over the past 20 years that research in this third era is fulfilling the promise inherent in using eye movement behavior to infer cognitive processes. The first era of eye movement research extended from Javal's initial observations concerning the role of eye movements in reading in 1879 (see Huey, 1908) up until about 1920. During this era, many basic facts about eye movements were discovered. Issues such as saccadic suppression (the fact that we do not perceive information during an eye movement), saccade latency (the time that it takes to initiate an eye movement), and the size of the perceptual span (the region of effective vision) were of concern in this era. The second era, which coincided with the behaviorist movement in experimental psychology, tended to have a more applied focus, and little research was undertaken with eye movements to infer cognitive processes. Although classic work by Tinker (1946) on reading and by Buswell (1935) on scene perception was carried out during this era, in retrospect, most of the work seems to have focused on the eye movements per se (or on surface aspects of the task being investigated). Tinker's (1958) final review ended on the rather pessimistic note that almost every-

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Analysis of eye fixations during the diagnostic interpretation of chest radiographs

Valk

Eijkman

1984

Med. Biol. Eng. Comput.

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A computer system for processing eye-movement records

Cited by 11 publications

References 5 publications

Eye movements and cognitive psychology: On-line computer approaches to studying visual information processing

Eye movements and cognitive psychology: On-line computer approaches to studying visual information processing

Eye movements in reading and information processing.

Analysis of eye fixations during the diagnostic interpretation of chest radiographs

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