Psycholinguistics & reading research

In Psycholinguistics Tobii Eye Trackers are used to investigate human language development and skills. Eye tracking is particularly useful in research that involves children, who cannot yet talk and still are developing motor and other skills.

• In perceptual-spatial studies, combine eye tracking data with other information, such as categorization and rating.
• Create audio-visual stimuli to investigate how infants’ gaze move from an object (or action) to another.
• Dramatically increase effectiveness of looking preference methods.

Eye tracking is also used to identify gaze patterns during reading.

• Study the interplay between visual perception and reading-and-tracking-task performance.
• Identify the cause of poor reading skills, i.e. relations between the control of eye movements and reading comprehension.
• Develop learning programs for dyslexic children.

Gaze replay video clip.

This movie shows the eye movements of a seven year old girl during reading.






Follow the links below for example research using Tobii eye tracking technology:

Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University, Sweden:

• Research on acquisition of language in early life.
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Language Processing Lab at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway:

• Research on apprehension and categorization of motion and spatial representation and its connection to spatial language.
  Click here.