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Eye tracking en psychologie et neurosciences Q4 2025

La recherche en Psychologie et neuroscience de ce trimestre présente 115 publications utilisant l'eye tracking de Tobii. L'eye tracking a permis aux chercheurs de capturer des modèles d'attention visuelle précis, révélant des connaissances en psychologie et neuroscience qui seraient autrement restées cachées. Les études utilisant la publication Tobii, E-Prime et 22 autres montrent comment cette technologie permet aux scientifiques du monde entier de découvrir de nouvelles compréhensions du comportement et de la cognition, faisant ainsi progresser la recherche en psychologie et neuroscience.

When Recommendations are Explainable: an Eye-Tracking Study Comparing How and What to Explain

Chenyue Wang, Anne C. Kroon, Judith Möller, Claes H. de Vreese & Sophie C. BoermanInformation Systems Frontiers

This study investigates how explanation scope affects users’ understanding, trust, and attitude toward a recommender system (RS), and how these effects are mediated by visual attention and moderated by explanation modality. Drawing on eye-tracking data, we conducted a 3 (explanation scope: local, global, joint) × 2 (modality: text-only, text with illustrations) between-subjects experiment, with a control group with no explanation (N = 277). Results showed that joint explanations outperformed no-explanation conditions across all outcomes. Structural equat...

Overconfidence: The Achilles’ Heel of Climate Communication? An Eye-Tracking Experiment

Petra DickelCleaner Production Letters

Climate communication plays a crucial role in motivating public engagement, yet its effectiveness can vary depending on how individuals process climate-related information. This study addresses the problem that people overestimate their knowledge about climate change, which may distort how they respond to communication efforts. The main aim of this research is to examine how overconfidence shapes the perception and evaluation of climate-related messages. To investigate this, an eye-tracking experiment with 98 participants was conducted, comparing respons...

How virtual field trip affects students’ social-emotional competency: an analysis of emotional-cognitive synergy effect

Rong Hu, Jiucheng Lei, Hao Xiang & Piao DuanEducation and Information Technologies

With the rapid advancement of virtual technologies, virtual field trip (VFT) has attracted increasing attention as an innovative pedagogical approach in contemporary education. However, empirical evidence on their effectiveness in promoting students’ competency development—particularly in the area of social-emotional competency (SEC)—remains scarce. To address this issue, this study employed a combination of self-report questionnaires and eye-tracking technology, using emotional scores and eye-movement data to investigate the effects of emotional engagem...

Animation Videos in a Computer-Based Listening-Speaking Integrated Task: An Eye-Tracking and Mixed-Methods Study on Test-Taking Processes

Lifang Yang, Guoxing Yu & Miao HuLanguage Assessment Quarterly

Computer-based language assessment tasks are becoming more multimodal and integrated. This paper reports on a study on a computer-based listening-speaking integrated task which uses an animation video as a prompt to provide a virtual communication context that requires test takers to summarize what they have heard and offer a solution to a problem in a role-play contract negotiation task. The study aimed to investigate how animation video, a unique type of video and multimodal input, influenced test-taking processes, drawing on two sources of data: test ...

Memory for complex dynamic events across two weeks in early infancy

Osman Skjold Kingo, Laura Gaïni, Trine Sonne & Peter KrøjgaardJournal of Experimental Child Psychology

Results from recent studies have shown that infants down to six months of age remember complex dynamic events across a two-week retention interval. However, the earliest age at which such material can be remembered is unknown. To explore this gap, the present study examined infants' memory for complex dynamic events after a delay of two weeks in a visual paired-comparison design. We tested two age groups, a group of six-month-olds (N=37) and a group of four-month-olds (N=37). At T1 participants saw one of two animated movies with a simple narrative. At T...

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REAsmash-ET: a methodological framework for combined cognitive and motor assessment through eye-tracking and kinematic metrics in immersive VR search-and-reach task

Gregorio Sorrentino, Martin Gareth Edwards, Nicolò Baldini, Magda Mustile, Thierry Lejeune & Gauthier EverardJournal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

BackgroundVirtual Reality (VR) Serious Games (SGs) can provide a functionally relevant framework to capture cognitive and motor dynamics. Their interactive and engaging nature improves compliance, measurement reliability and allows for more frequent evaluations. Additionally, VR SGs enable the parallel collection of multiple types of data within a single session. We present REAsmash-ET, an immersive VR adaptation of the REAsmash SG, grounded in Feature Integration Theory (FIT) and integrating eye-tracking (ET) and upper limb kinematic (UL) analyses. REAs...

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Efficacy of Cognitive Remediation Therapy in Enhancing Impaired Eye Movement in Individuals with Schizophrenia: An Observational Prospective Cohort Study

Akiko TaniInternational Journal of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) can improve impaired cognitive function in individuals with schizophrenia. Although previous studies suggest a relationship between eye movement (EM) and neurocognition, whether CRT can improve impaired EM and cognitive dysfunction remains unknown. Therefore, this study aimed to clarify whether CRT improves impaired EM and top-down attention (TA) in individuals with schizophrenia. Changes in EM in a free-viewing task and reaction times as an index of TA in a visual search task pre- and post-CRT were compared between CR...

Reducing attention bias toward negative emotional stimuli with transcranial random noise stimulation: a randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled, crossover study

Daisuke Sawamura, Miaowen Duan, Yuji Inagaki, Ryuji Saito, Kazufumi Okada, Akihiro Watanabe, Harukazu Tohyama, Takaya Maeyama, Susumu Yoshida, Mitsunori Miyazaki, Naoya Hasegawa, Koichi Yokosawa & Yumie OnoScientific Reports

Excessive attention bias interferes with daily life and contributes to various psychiatric conditions. Previous studies have demonstrated that anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) applied to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) can enhance attentional control and reduce negative emotional bias. However, little is known about the effects of transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) on attention bias. This study aimed to investigate whether tRNS reduces attention bias toward negative emotional stimuli compared to tDCS, for wh...

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Statistical Modeling of Psychophysiological and Personality Factors to Predict Construction Workers’ Near-Miss Recognition Performance

Shashank Muley, Sueed Willoughby & Chao WangComputing in Civil Engineering 2024

Due to the industry’s high-risk nature, construction workers often encounter hazardous conditions. Past studies have shown that recognizing near-miss incidents is crucial for minimizing injuries, yet predicting workers’ near-miss recognition performance remains a research gap. Therefore, this study aims to develop models using psychological factors (Big 5 personality traits), physiological measures (heart rate and electrodermal activity), and eye-tracking metrics (time to first fixation and fixation duration) to predict near-miss recognition. A total of ...

Human infants appreciate that information bears value for other individuals

Bálint Varga & Ágnes Melinda KovácsScientific Reports

Humans’ ability to recognize each other as seekers of information is crucial for effectively sharing knowledge, evaluating confidence, and reasoning about the role of knowledge in behavior. Here, we investigate the foundations of this ’epistemic sense’ through a series of looking-time experiments, asking whether 14-month-old human infants recognize and evaluate the information-directed goals behind others’ actions. In Experiments 1-3, we assess infants’ understanding of scenarios where an individual seeks information driven by uncertainty or curiosity ab...

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Investigating the role of attentional effort in the efficacy of goal-setting in reducing attention lapses

Deanna L. Strayer & Nash UnsworthAttention Perception and Psychophysics

Attention lapses occur when focus shifts away from the task at hand towards internal or external distractions and can lead to failures in completing intended actions. Goal-setting theory proposes that setting specific, difficult goals leads to better task performance over vague goals. The present study examined whether goal setting increased attentional effort and reduced attention lapses during a four-choice reaction time task. The control condition received the vague goal: “respond as quickly as possible while keeping your accuracy above 95%.” The goal...

Effects of sandhi-based predictability in Kansai Japanese depend on markedness: a visual-world eye-tracking study

Aine Ito, Takeshi Kishiyama, Yoichiro Yamashita & Yuki HiroseLanguage Cognition and Neuroscience

During comprehension, various aspects of upcoming input can be anticipated. However, it is unclear to what extent listeners exploit suprasegmental information to facilitate lexical retrieval. In Japanese, a Kansai-dialect-specific pitch accent system and a sandhi rule create a situation where the final tone of certain modifiers is conditioned by the initial tone of the following noun, thereby making the upcoming tone predictable. Both Tokyo and Kansai speakers showed increased fixations on the target when its initial tone was predictable based on an all-...

Strategic Limitations in Preschoolers’ Relational Spatial Reasoning: Insights from Eye‐Tracking and Instructional Intervention

Chia‐Yen HsiehBritish Journal of Educational Psychology

ABSTRACT Background Relational spatial reasoning is foundational to later mathematical and navigational competencies, yet little is known about the strategic processes preschoolers employ when integrating relational information. Eye‐tracking offers a means to capture these processes, but evidence remains limited, particularly regarding how brief instructional interventions shape children's visual strategies. Aims This study examined whether a short, strategy‐focused instructional intervention enhances preschoolers’ relational spatial reasoning and wheth...

Estradiol and non-REM sleep attenuate physiological and emotional responses to social-evaluative stress in healthy women

Elisa M. S. Meth, Diana A. Nôga, Frank Wedzinga, Abdullah Almajni, André P. Pacheco, Viviana Rossi, Per C. Simonsson, Céline Heel, Camilla Zetterlund, Samira F. M. Noory, Michaela Danek, Pei Xue & Christian BenedictBMC Medicine

BackgroundThis study examined whether individual differences in estradiol and sleep predict autonomic and cognitive responses to social-evaluative stress in healthy young women.MethodsForty-two healthy women underwent overnight in-laboratory sleep monitoring, followed by a social-evaluative stress task the next morning, which involved listening to a playback of their own karaoke singing. Pre-task estradiol levels were measured via blood sampling. Autonomic responses were assessed using Pupil Research dilation during the playback, while cognitive response...

Brain–Pupil Research Coupling Revealed Through Deep Learning of Intracranial Recordings

Vicki Li, Simeon M. Wong, Hrishikesh Suresh, Nebras M. Warsi, Sebastian C. Coleman, Karim Mithani, Hosni Abu Alhasan, Flavia Venetucci Gouveia, Puneet Jain, Ayako Ochi, Hiroshi Otsubo, Lauren Sham, Shelly Weiss, Rohit Sharma, Elizabeth N. Kerr, James T. Rutka, Elizabeth Donner & George M. IbrahimHuman Brain Mapping

Pupil Researchlary responses are windows into human cognition, but their neural substrates are poorly understood. We studied brain-Pupil Research coupling through intracranial recordings and Pupil Researchlometry in 13 children and youth with epilepsy (ages 9-18) during an attentional set-shifting task. Time-resolved mixed-effects modelling identified associations between Pupil Research diameter, neural activity and cognitive performance. We first showed that Pupil Researchlary dynamics are closely linked to cognitive performance, with task-stage depende...

Investigating the Effect of Presentation Mode on Cognitive Load in English–Chinese Distance Simultaneous Interpreting: An Eye-Tracking Study

Xuelian (Rachel) ZhuJournal of Eye Movement Research

Distance simultaneous interpreting is a typical example of technology-mediated interpreting, bridging participants (i.e., interpreters, audience, and speakers) in various events and conferences. This study explores how presentation mode affects cognitive load in DSI, utilizing eye-tracking sensor technology. A controlled experiment was conducted involving 36 participants, comprising 19 professional interpreters and 17 student interpreters, to assess the effects of presentation mode on their cognitive load during English-to-Chinese DSI. A Tobii Pro X3-120...

The impact of visual information and translation experience on subtitling effort: a pilot study

Weiqing Xiao, Xinyuan Liu & Minghao MaThe Translator

The subtitling process remains an uncharted territory in audiovisual translation research, particularly regarding the impact of visual information on the subtitling effort across different translation experience levels. This study involved 30 participants, including 10 professional subtitlers, 10 translation students and 10 non-translation students. Eye tracking and keylogging were used to assess the temporal, technical, and cognitive effort in English – Chinese subtitling with and without visual information. Participants’ written translation and subtitl...

Introducing the kollaR package: A user-friendly open-access solution for eye-tracking analysis and visualization

Johan Lundin Kleberg, Astrid E. Z. Hallman, Rebecka Astenvald, Ann Nordgren, Terje Falck-Ytter & Ronald van den BergBehavior Research Methods

Eye tracking has become an increasingly important tool in cognitive and developmental research, providing insights into processes that are difficult to measure otherwise. The majority of eye-tracking studies rely on accurate identification of fixations and Saccade Researchs in raw data using event classification algorithms (sometimes called fixation filters). Subsequently, it is common to analyze whether fixations or Saccade Researchs fall into specific areas of interest (AOI). The choice of algorithms can significantly influence study outcomes, especial...

The effect of Pupil Research size on data quality in head-mounted eye trackers

Mohammadhossein Salari, Diederick C. Niehorster, Marcus Nyström & Roman BednarikBehavior Research Methods

Changes in Pupil Research size can lead to apparent gaze shifts in data recorded with video-based eye trackers in the absence of physical eye rotation. This is known as the Pupil Research-size artifact (PSA). While the PSA is widely reported in desktop eye trackers, it is unknown whether and to what extent it occurs in head-mounted eye trackers. In this paper, we examined the effects of Pupil Research size variations on eye-tracking data quality in four head-mounted eye trackers: the Pupil Research Core, the Pupil Research Neon, the SMI ETG 2w, and the T...

A smart community interactive art therapy platform based on multimodal computer graphics and resilient artificial intelligence for home-based elderly care

DianDian Sang, Ling Miao & Qitao WuScientific Reports

This research presents an innovative smart community interactive art therapy platform that integrates multimodal computer graphics with resilient artificial intelligence adaptation mechanisms to address the growing challenges of home-based elderly care. The platform employs a four-layered hierarchical architecture encompassing perception, network, platform, and application layers to deliver personalized therapeutic interventions. The system utilizes multimodal data fusion algorithms to process visual, auditory, and haptic inputs while implementing adapti...

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Intrasexual Competition and Rival Derogation in Women Are Associated With Visual Processing of Emotional Facial Expression and Emotions

Ray Garza, Jenna D. Arsuaga & Farid PazhoohiArchives of Sexual Behavior

Intrasexual competition is when members of the same sex compete for access to desirable mates. In women, the use of non-physical strategies, such as verbal and indirect aggression, are often preferred to mitigate potential risks of being targeted or to prevent partner desertion. To act accordingly, women have to attend to cues, such as Facial Expression and Emotions, to be able to discern if an individual is a potential threat. The current study (N = 136) aimed at investigating the role of women’s intrasexual competition and rival derogation strategies i...

The interest of eye‐tracking for apathy detection in patients with Mild Neurocognitive Disorders

Valeria Manera, Maria Cordero‐Rull, Razeen Hussain & Fabio SolariAlzheimer's & Dementia

BACKGROUND: Apathy, defined as a significant reduction in self-initiated, goal-directed behaviors, is one of the most prevalent neuropsychiatric symptoms in Neurocognitive Disorders (NCD). Early and accurate detection is critical for implementing timely interventions. Clinicians and researchers emphasize the importance of using objective, quantifiable behavioral biomarkers to complement traditional clinical assessments. Eye-tracking techniques offer the potential to quantify exploratory behaviors, which could enhance the assessment of apathy. However, fe...

Increasing resilience to stress by home-based transcranial stimulation

Rubén Romero-Marín, Rubén Romero-Marín, Rubén Romero-Marín, Davide Cappon, Davide Cappon, Simon Fankhsuser, Simon Fankhsuser, Simon Fankhsuser, Javier Solana-Sánchez, Javier Solana-Sánchez, Javier Solana-Sánchez, Ruben Perellón-Alfonso, Ruben Perellón-Alfonso, Ruben Perellón-Alfonso, Josep Maria Tormos-Muñoz, Luiz Pessoa, Luiz Pessoa, Luiz Pessoa, David Bartrés-Faz, David Bartrés-Faz, David Bartrés-Faz, Álvaro Pascual-Leone, Álvaro Pascual-Leone, Gabriele Cattaneo, Gabriele Cattaneo & Gabriele CattaneoJournal of Affective Disorders

Mental health disorders, especially anxiety and depression, affect nearly one billion people worldwide, with chronic stress playing a major role in their onset and severity. Despite growing demand, access to care remains limited, underscoring the need for scalable, preventive interventions. This study investigates the feasibility, safety, and preliminary effects of a Home-Based transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (HB-tDCS) protocol targeting the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (L-DLPFC) to enhance stress resilience in healthy middle-aged adults. ...

Artificial Intelligence-guided digital intervention with physiological monitoring reduces intrusive memories after experimental trauma

Megan T. deBettencourt, Sruthi Sakthivel, Emily A. Holmes, Emily A. Holmes & Mark Chevilletnpj Digital Medicine

Trauma prevalence is vast globally. Evidence-based digital treatments can help, but most require human guidance. Human guides provide tailored instructions and responsiveness to internal states, but limit scalability. Might generative Artificial Intelligence and neurotechnology provide a scalable alternative? Here we provide a first test of ANTIDOTE, combining Artificial Intelligence guidance and Pupil Researchlometry to automatically deliver and monitor the Imagery Competing Task Intervention (ICTI). ICTI is a digital intervention developed by our group...

Filling in the Blanks of Ganzfeld Art

Eleftheria Pistolas, Corinna Kühnapfel, Boris Quétard, Liv Smets & Johan WagemansPsychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts

The Ganzfeld, that is, a homogeneous visual field known to induce peculiar perceptual experiences, has attracted interest from various fields over the past 9 decades. Beyond the fields of visual perception and consciousness, this multifaceted effect has garnered attention from a wider public due to its application in contemporary art by artists such as James Turrell. Until now, these art experiences have merely been described to elicit immersive experiences in the field of empirical aesthetics, with no empirical evidence. This study aimed to elucidate wh...

Prenatal exposure to air pollution and infant cognitive development using an eye-tracking visual paired-comparison task

Carmen Peuters, Joan Birulés, Toni Galmés, Xavier Basagaña, Alan Dominguez, Maria Foraster, Laura Gomez-Herrera, María Dolores Gómez-Roig, Elisa Llurba, Ioar Rivas, Jessica Sánchez-Galán, Laura Bosch, Mireia Gascon, Payam Dadvand & Jordi SunyerEnvironmental Pollution

Although the prenatal life is a critical period for brain development, very few studies have focused on prenatal exposure to air pollution in relation to infant cognition, and most studies have relied on carer-reported outcome assessment. We examined the association between prenatal exposure to air pollution and objective measurement of infant cognitive development using an eye-tracking methodology. The study was based on data from a subset of 168 mother-child pairs participating in the Barcelona Life Study Cohort (BiSC), Spain (2018-2023). Total exposur...

Understanding trust toward human versus Artificial Intelligence-generated health information through behavioral and physiological sensing

Xin Sun, Rongjun Ma, Shu Wei, Pablo Cesar, Jos A. Bosch & Abdallah El AliInternational Journal of Human-Computer Studies

As Artificial Intelligence-generated health information proliferates online and becomes increasingly indistinguishable from human-sourced information, it becomes critical to understand how people trust and label such content, especially when the information is inaccurate. We conducted two complementary studies: (1) a mixed-methods survey (N=142) employing a 2 (source: Human vs. LLM)2 (label: Human vs. Artificial Intelligence)3 (type: General, Symptom, Treatment) design, and (2) a within-subjects lab study (N=40) incorporating eye-tracking and physiologic...

Predicting Attention Allocation in Dual-Task Scenarios Using Multidimensional Eye-Tracking Metrics

Xuyi Qiu, Ying Gao, Kangning Wang, Xizhong Yang, Wei Wei & Shuang QiuInternational Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

Attention allocation is essential for multitasking, as it reflects the distribution of limited cognitive resources across tasks. Traditional eye-tracking metrics, such as fixation and glance ratios, provide limited insight into complex attentional processes. This study employed a comprehensive set of eye-tracking measures, including Pupil Research diameter, eye movement amplitude, velocity, and duration, to assess attentional dynamics. We designed a dual-task scenario with varied task difficulty, elicited different levels of attention allocation. Analysi...

Trapped by Selective Attention: The Role of Attentional Processes in the Emergence and Prevention of Learning Traps

Poppy Watson, Yanjun Liu, Won Jae Lee, Jaimie E. Lee, Ben R. Newell & Brett K. HayesJournal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition

Learning traps are cycles of suboptimal decision making where a false belief about the structure of the environment leads to avoidance of rewarding options. Two experiments (N = 324) examined the role of selective attention in the emergence and prevention of learning traps. Participants learned to approach or avoid members of two categories that were associated with either gains or losses. A rule involving two visual feature dimensions predicted category membership, while a third dimension was irrelevant. Category feedback was provided only when an item ...

Attentional responses to the color exposure sequence of landscape paintings: evidence from fNIRS and eye-tracking

Hyoyeong Jeong & Seongdae KimFrontiers in Human Neuroscience

Introduction: Color is a critical determinant of esthetic experience, shaping both immersion and cognitive responses. However, the extent to which the sequence of color exposure modulates the interplay between neural activation and ocular behavior remains insufficiently understood. Methods: Ten chromatic landscape paintings were collected and converted into achromatic versions, yielding a total of 20 visual stimuli. Participants were assigned to two conditions: Condition A (achromatic to chromatic) and Condition B (chromatic to achromatic). Visual attent...

Task-constrained self-initiated attention shifts are indexed by frontal-midline theta ramping

Dengzhe Hou, Sai Sun, Yasuhiro Hatori, Chia-huei Tseng & Satoshi ShioiriFrontiers in Human Neuroscience

In everyday vision, we often shift attention internally without external cues. These self-initiated attention shifts are fundamental to voluntary behavior but are poorly understood because most studies use cue-based paradigms that predetermine when and where to shift attention. To address this gap, we designed a multi-sequential-choice rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) paradigm with identical visual inputs to dissociate internal and external determinants of attention across three voluntary shift types: task-constrained self-initiated, externally in...

Quiet Eyes: Visual Gaze Stability Predicts Intra- and Interindividual Differences in Attention Control

Matthew K. Robison, Lauren D. Garner & Stephen CampbellJournal of Experimental Psychology General

In the present study, we examined oculomotor dynamics during the completion of three measures of attention control among a large sample of young adults (N = 388). First, we address the ongoing question regarding the coherence of attention control as a cognitive construct. Here, we find that attention control can be measured reliably and is correlated with yet distinct from working memory capacity. Then, we examined fixation stability prior to cue and stimulus onsets in the antiSaccade Research, psychomotor , and sustained attention to cue tasks. We hypot...

An analytics-driven model for identifying autism spectrum disorder using eye tracking

Deblina Mazumder SetuHealthcare Analytics

The efficient and early detection of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a critical objective in improving diagnosis and intervention outcomes. Various methods based on functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and questionnaires have been explored, among which eye tracking is a promising approach. However, existing methods relying on eye tracking often restrict us to controlled environments, making things complicated and expensive. This study eliminates the requirement for specific parameters by concentrating just on eye movement data for ASD detection...

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Is teachers' professional vision visible in the classroom? Exploring the links between teachers’ knowledge-based reasoning and observed classroom interactions

Heli Muhonen, Eija Pakarinen & Marja-Kristiina LerkkanenLearning and Instruction

Background It has been posited that teachers' professional vision reflects their pedagogical competence and expertise; however, the empirical evidence supporting these claims remains inadequate to construct comprehensive research-based knowledge of teachers' professional vision as a background mechanism underpinning their classroom interactions. To develop high-quality classroom interactions that support student learning, we need insight into teachers’ professional vision behind their practices in classroom interactions. Aims This study explored the exte...

Eyes on the Leader: Gaze Behavior as a Cue for Follower Conscientiousness

Simon Liegl, Thomas Maran, Marco Furtner & Pierre SachseJournal of Applied Social Psychology

ABSTRACT A key to a leader's effectiveness lies in their ability to convey information about their traits and abilities to their followers by means of charismatic signaling. The traits followers might signal in turn have, however, not yet been observed. Focusing on one of the most salient and potent nonverbal behaviors and the most valued follower trait in the organizational context, we investigated the potential of eye‐directed gaze behavior to signal follower conscientiousness. Using mobile eye‐tracking we unobtrusively measured participants' gaze beha...

Using Biometric Data to Investigate the Cognitive, Behavioural and Emotional Effects of Ambiguities in Business Process Models

Jesper Barfod, John Krogstie & Kshitij SharmaLecture Notes in Business Information Processing The Practice of Enterprise Modeling

Much research has been done on the comprehension and development of enterprise process models. In this paper, we follow up on work done previously by others on the effect of ambiguities on model comprehension. Ambiguities might lead to multiple alternative process interpretations by the readers of process models.In this paper, we will present research on techniques for collecting biometric data to investigate how we work with visual process models, some of which include lexical or visual ambiguities. We report an experiment with data from 26 persons as t...

Social Influences on Early Fairness Expectations in Toddlers: Siblings, Peers, and Caregivers

Marek Meristo, Sara Szepanski & Karin StridInfancy

This study examined how social factors such as parental mental state language, sibling presence, and preschool attendance influence their expectations of fairness in 18-month-old toddlers. Fifty-four toddlers participated in a nonverbal fairness task and a picture-description task with their caregivers. We also collected questionnaire data concerning the presence of siblings and preschool attendance. The fairness task involved an animated scenario with a mouse distributing bananas to monkeys, measuring the infants' attention to equal and unequal outcomes...

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Attention to text in video predicts young children's orthographic knowledge

Tanya Kaefer & Susan B. NeumanBritish Journal of Educational Psychology

BACKGROUND AND Artificial IntelligenceMS: This study examined preschool-aged children's attention to text in video, and whether it may be related to their developing orthographic knowledge. SAMPLE 1: Study 1 showed 66 children videos that included text. Method Children's attention to the video was measured using eye-tracking, and their recognition of orthographic patterns within the video was tested after viewing. Results During viewing, children attended to the text 6% of the time it was available. However, children who both had pre-existing letter know...

The effect of morpheme positional frequency on tibetan novel word acquisition: An eye-tracking study

Dingyi Niu & Jing TianPLOS One

Word segmentation is crucial for reading in unspaced languages like Tibetan, where readers rely on high-level cues like morpheme positional frequency (the statistical likelihood of a morpheme appearing at the beginning or end of a word). Using a novel word learning paradigm, this study investigated whether initial and final morpheme positional frequency facilitate word segmentation and lexical recognition in Tibetan. In two eye-tracking experiments, participants read sentences containing novel words manipulated for initial (Experiment 1) or final (Experi...

Windows to the Social Mind: What Eye-Tracking Reveals About Theory of Mind in Children and Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Sobh Chahboun, Brian Sullivan, David Saldaña, Mila Vulchanova & Martina MicaiBehavioral Sciences

Human social life is dependent on the ability of individuals to understand other people as separate cognitive agents, capable of thought independent from themselves. This understanding and the attribution of mental states to others, often called Theory of Mind (ToM), is a naturally developing ability. Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) seem to experience difficulty in attributing mental states to others, and this may explain impaired social interaction and communication behaviors. The Frith-Happé animations are short videos designed to test ...

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Neural reinstatement and sequential reactivation of navigational episodic memory and its age-related decline

Jeonghyun Lee, Sang-Eon Park & Sang Ah LeeNeuropsychologia

When we retrieve memories of past navigational episodes, our brain reactivates cortical representations of the spatial information experienced along the way. Although navigation is temporally dynamic in nature, previous studies on cortical memory reactivation have mostly focused on single items or their associated contexts. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether sequential reactivation of navigational events can be measured from cortical electrophysiological activity and is influenced by factors such as age or the availability of spatial cues. Pa...

Outcome processing response coupled to feedback-related EEG dynamics during discrete and continuous performance monitoring

Ruijie Luo, Jianjun Meng, Yuxuan Wei, Ximing Mai & Guangye LiJournal of Neuroscience Methods

BACKGROUND: Error-related potential (ErrP) reflects the inconsistency between internal expectation and external feedback outcome. Despite the exploration of numerous experimental paradigms, ErrP components exhibit distinct latency and amplitude across different paradigms. However, previous studies have not quantitatively correlated potential influencing factors with this ErrP variability. Additionally, these qualitatively analyzed factors offer limited predictions for ErrP in new paradigms.NEW METHOD: We proposed that a neutral condition removing goal-di...

How readers navigate comic book pages: evidence from eye movements

Paul A. Aleixo, Jane L. Morgan & Diarmuid VerrierJournal of Graphic Novels and Comics

While a z-path is intrinsically part of how typically formatted text is read, it is less clear that this same approach is used when reading comics. Previous evidence for the z-path is limited to self-reported preferences from readers. The main aim of this paper was to objectively confirm that readers do use a z-path when navigating a comic book page by using eye-tracking technology. We examined the eye-movement behaviour of 90 participants when reading a textless page from the comic Watchmen. Participants were a mix of novice and expert comic book reader...

National representations in digital heritage exposure: exploring young people’s in­-group/out­-group categorisation on cultural artefact visuals and related evaluations

Yicheng Jiang, Xia Zheng, Xiaojiang Chen, Yun Xiao & Mengting ShenHumanities and Social Sciences Communications

Digital pictures of cultural artefacts are increasingly accessible and reused in everyday life. Does this visual exposure underlie the impression of “what our artefacts look like”, and does it have implications for the formation of national identity? Through two mixed-method studies, we demonstrated that even without external interpretation, young Chinese lay participants (mainly university students) could spontaneously categorise digital artefact visuals into in-group/out-group. The self-reported “stereotypes” consisted of both objective and perceptual ...

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The Effects of Familiarity and Facial Occlusion on Social Gaze Dynamics in Natural Dyadic Interactions

Florence Mayrand, Mikayla Strandberg & Jelena RisticCanadian Journal of Experimental Psychology Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale

Although gaze information is important for human interactions, recent studies show that in natural exchanges, mutual face-to-face looks occur relatively infrequently, on less than 15% of interaction time. In the present study, we conducted two dyadic interaction experiments utilizing dual mobile eye-tracking eyeglasses to examine if the prevalence of mutual face-to-face looks may be affected by interactive context. In Experiment 1, we strengthened the interactive context by measuring looking behaviours in dyads of friends. In Experiment 2, we weakened th...

BEACH-Gaze: Supporting Descriptive and Predictive Gaze Analytics in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science

Bo Fu, Kayla Chu, Angelo Ryan Soriano, Peter Gatsby, Nicolas Guardado Guardado, Ashley Jones, Matthew Halderman, Angelo Soriano & Nicolas GuardadoJournal of Eye Movement Research

Recent breakthroughs in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the emergence of large datasets have made the integration of eye tracking increasingly feasible not only in computing but also in many other disciplines to accelerate innovation and scientific discovery. These transformative changes often depend on intelligently analyzing and interpreting gaze data, which demand a substantial technical background. Overcoming these technical barriers has remained an obstacle to the broader adoption of eye tracking technologies in certain communities. I...

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Pattern of fixation explains atypical eye processing during observation of faces with direct or averted gaze in autism (results of the INFoR Cohort)

Olena V. Bogdanova, Volodymyr B. Bogdanov, Etienne Guillaud, Charles Laidi, Josselin Houenou, Richard Delorme, Myriam Ly‑Le Moal, Marion Leboyer, Manuel Bouvard, Jean‑René Cazalets & Anouck AmestoyPLOS One

One of the most reliable early predictors of autism is atypical social attention, particularly attenuated eye gaze contact. As a part of the InFoR cohort, a multicentric French longitudinal study, 88 autistic participants and 56 participants without autism performed a gaze discrimination task using 28 static pictures of faces with either direct or averted gaze. We monitored eye fixation behavior during face picture observation and analyzed subsequent key-press responses. The eyes of faces with direct gaze attracted more fixations than those of faces with...

Predictive fixations to target bounces in an interception task

Mario Treviño & Inmaculada MárquezJournal of Neurophysiology

Predictive control enables humans to anticipate future events by combining sensory feedback with internal models. In interception tasks, such mechanisms could allow the visual system to estimate future target positions, supporting timely and accurate motor responses. Here, we investigated predictive gaze behavior in a visuomotor task where participants used a joystick to intercept a moving target that rebounded within a circular arena. Eye movements were classified into fixations, smooth pursuit, and Saccade Researchs using a velocity-based method. The a...

Childhood Linear Growth and Early Morbidity as Predictors of Adolescent Cognitive Ability in Malawi: A Prospective Observational Study

Karoliina Videman, Jukka M. Leppänen, Lotta Hallamaa, Kenneth Maleta, Per Ashorn, Charles Mangani & Ulla AshornActa Paediatrica

Artificial IntelligenceM: Growth faltering and loss of development potential are common in low- and middle-income countries. We aimed to study whether linear growth before and after 2 years, height-for-age Z-score (HAZ) from 1 month until 13 years and morbidity during the first 3 years predict adolescent cognitive ability.METHODS: Cognitive assessment was done between 2018 and 2019 using Raven's coloured progressive matrices (N = 997), a measure of inductive reasoning and eye-tracking measures of saccadic speed (N = 760) and saccadic control (N = 618) am...

Reliable Single-Trial Detection of Saccade Research-Related Lambda Responses with Independent Component Analysis

Iffah Syafiqah binti Suhaili, Balint Toth, Zoltan Nagy & Zoltan Juhaszeneuro

In natural, free-viewing settings, visual perception is driven by a series of Saccade Researchs and fixations. Perceptual mechanisms are typically studied through averaged fixation-related potentials generated from simultaneous eye-tracking and EEG recordings. Lambda responses following fixation onsets signal the arrival of new visual input to the primary visual cortex. In our study, we investigate the use and preprocessing parameter dependence of independent component analysis (ICA) in separating the lambda response from other neural sources. In our exp...

Bright Lights, Silent Signals: Colour-Specific Attention–Arousal Decoupling in Autistic Children Revealed by Eye-Tracking and Pupil Researchlometry

Wenting Jiang & Fangqing LiuJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

PurposeAtypical visual exploration is widely reported in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet little is known about how chromatic properties modulate oculomotor behaviour. This study aims to address this problem.MethodsWe recorded eye movements from 34 children with ASD (6–16 y) and 40 age-matched typically developing (TD) peers while they viewed six picture sets that independently manipulated hue, luminance and saturation. Nine eye-movement metrics were extracted per task and analysed with mixed-effects ANOVAs; false-discovery-rate control (q = .05) and ...

What Makes Turn-Taking Smooth? Analysis of Gaze Behavior During a Multitasking Videoconference

Taketo Imagawa, Atsuto Kurokochi, Koki Yanagii, Kazuyuki Iso, Masayuki Ihara & Minoru KobayashiLecture Notes in Computer Science Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing

The widespread use of remote meetings enabled collaborative work without being co-located. However, remote meetings require participants to engage in multiple tasks simultaneously, such as browsing the document, texting in chat, and taking notes. These multitasking environments make it difficult to recognize who is about to speak or when to speak, which can lead to speech contention or awkward silence. To address this issue, we analyzed gaze behavior during three meeting conditions, in-person, audio, and video meetings, and two multitasking tasks, docume...

Now You See It, Now You Don’t: The Age-Related Positivity Effect to Faces Disappears in Naturalistic Settings

Sarah A. Grainger, Ellie Ward, Sarah J. Barber, Benjamin W. Tatler & Louise H. PhillipsEmotion

There is an age-related positivity effect in attention to emotional faces. However, all of these studies have relied on computer tasks where people are directed to look at faces on a screen. The primary aim of this study was to test whether the age-related positivity effect to emotional faces emerges under more naturalistic settings. The secondary aim was to test whether an own-age bias exists in attention to emotional faces and whether task ecological validity moderates any observed effect. Younger and older adults completed a naturalistic positivity ef...

Individual Differences in Infants’ Curiosity Are Linked to Cognitive Capacity in Early Childhood

Eline R. de Boer, Francesco Poli, Marlene Meyer, Rogier B. Mars & Sabine HunniusDevelopmental Science

Research has shown that infants are curious and actively seek situations from which they can learn. For instance, a recent eye-tracking study demonstrates that babies tend to allocate their attention to stimuli that offer opportunities for learning new information. Interestingly, however, the degree to which attention is guided by information gain varies among individual infants. This longitudinal study provides the first empirical evidence suggesting that these early individual differences in infants' sensitivity to information gain are linked to later ...

No Evidence for Curiosity‐Driven Information Selection Advantage in Infants’ Novel Word Learning

Marina Bazhydai, Malcolm K. Y. Wong, Elena Constanze Altmann, Samuel David Jones & Gert WestermannDevelopmental Science

The cognitive mechanisms and benefits of active learning in early child development are poorly understood. The current study investigated 20-23-month-old infants' curiosity-driven information selection in a novel word learning task, designed to identify potential advantage for active learning over passive learning. In a gaze-contingent eye-tracking paradigm, infants in one condition were given the opportunity to structure their own information seeking to actively create word learning opportunities for themselves, while infants in two other conditions eng...

Acute stress impairs decision-making at varying levels of decision complexity

Karlo Doroc, Nitin Yadav & Carsten MurawskiCommunications Psychology

Acute stress triggers a cascade of physiological and psychological changes, including heightened perspiration, cortisol levels, and anxiety. Currently, little is known about the effects of acute stress on the quality of higher-order decision-making, with existing studies unable to disentangle decision-making capacity from subjective preferences. To address this gap, we conducted a within-participants laboratory experiment in which university students (n = 42) made objective decisions of varying complexity (computational hardness) under both acutely stres...

Visual Speech Reduces Cognitive Effort as Measured by EEG Theta Power and Pupil Research Dilation

Brian Kai Loong Man, Dorothea Wendt, Elaine Hoi Ning Ng, Kasper Eskelund & Tobias Anderseneneuro

Listening effort reflects the cognitive and motivational resources allocated to speech comprehension, particularly under challenging conditions. Visual cues are known to enhance speech perception, potentially by reducing the cognitive demands of the task. However, the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying this facilitation, especially in terms of effort-related changes, remain unclear. In this study, we combined Pupil Researchlometry and electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate how visual speech cues modulate cognitive effort during speech recognit...

Visual Search Behavior During Toileting in Older Patients During the Action-Planning Stage

Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology

Background: Visual search supports action planning and target selection in daily life. Despite toileting being frequent yet high-risk in rehabilitation, gaze analyses specific to toileting remain limited. This study quantified visual search behavior during the approach phase of toileting. Methods: Twenty inpatients aged 65 years or older in a convalescent rehabilitation ward participated in the study. At the time of hospital admission, their gaze behavior from toilet room entry to arrival at the bowl was recorded using an eye tracker (Tobii Pro Glasses 2...

Synergy of Eye and Hand: Multimodal Biomarkers for Cognitive Assessment

Michal Gavenciak, Jan Mucha, Jan Mucha, Jiri Mekyska, Jiri Mekyska, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy & Pau Ferrer-Ramos2025 17th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT)

Traditional handwriting analysis for neurological assessment captures motor output but largely misses the guiding cognitive processes like visuospatial planning and attention. This study introduces a multimodal approach, combining online handwriting kinematics with concurrent eye-tracking data from 48 older adults performing the Pentagon Copy Test (PCT). We extracted novel feature sets, including Hand-Eye Coupling (HEC) and Fractional Derivative (FD) biomarkers, and used an XGBoost classifier with Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) to predict a binarize...

Memory inception through gaze-contingent message exposure: using virtual reality to study media influence

Hee Jung Cho, Sue Lim, Miriya Saenz & Ralf SchmälzleJournal of Communication

Abstract Media messages shape our knowledge about the world, but measuring individual exposure and attention remains challenging. Emerging media offer a solution to studying message reception in simulated real-world environments, which may soon become the actual media environments in which we encounter messages. Here, we utilized virtual reality (VR) and eye-tracking to investigate message processing in a realistic virtual city environment populated with billboards. We introduced an inception-style manipulation where billboards initially overlooked by pa...

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An Intelligent Assistive System for Autistic Learners

Sadia Afrin, Afrin Ahmed, Mehrin Anannya, Samrat Kumar Dey, Samrat Kumar Dey, Moshiur Rahman & Rashed MazumderEngineering Reports

ABSTRACT This study presents the design and implementation of an educational assistive system tailored for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), leveraging eye‐tracking technology and machine learning algorithms. The objective is to support communication and learning experiences through ocular gaze and fixation‐based keyboard selection. An existing collection of scanpath images obtained from 15 children with ASD was utilized, and a customized heterogeneous dataset was developed by extracting fixation and gaze‐related features using machine lea...

    Visual statistical learning and social attention in neurotypical, minimally speaking and speaking autistic preschoolers

    Eleonora Paolizzi, Gioia Cavalli, Nancy Raitano Lee & Giacomo VivantiScientific Reports

    Autistic children experience atypical patterns of spoken language acquisition, yet the mechanisms underlying these differences remain poorly understood. In typical development, spoken language acquisition is gated by statistical learning abilities (the ability to detect patterns) and social attention (preferential engagement with social vs. non-social stimuli). The potential role of these mechanisms in the spoken language atypicalities seen in autism are under-researched, partly due to the methodological barriers when assessing children with minimal spok...

    Neural Dynamics of Relational Memory Retrieval Across Eye Movements

    Andrey R. Nikolaev, Roger Johansson, Inês Bramão & Mikael JohanssonPsychophysiology

    Relational memory retrieval entails a dynamic interplay between eye movements and neural activity, yet the temporal coordination of these processes remains unclear. We examined how theta- and alpha-band EEG activity relates to sequential fixations during relational memory retrieval. Participants performed a two-alternative forced-choice associative memory task while eye movements and EEG were recorded simultaneously. Retrieval was marked by a relational eye-movement effect: correctly remembered target elements were fixated disproportionately during the l...

    Boosting Vocabulary Learning and Comprehension in a Foreign Language Through Plurilingualism: An Eye-Tracking Study of the Effectiveness of L2, L3, and Intercomprehensible Glosses

    Ilaria BorroInstructed Second Language Acquisition

    The aim of the present study is to investigate the use of glosses as a means to involve the learners’ whole language repertoire in the L3 learning process, resulting in the activation of languages that imply different levels of cognitive effort ( Boers, 2022 ). Proficient participants in L2 English were assigned to three experimental groups, each exposed to a version of an Italian TL graded reader, with glosses requiring a growing amount of cognitive engagement: (a) English glosses; (b) Italian glosses; (c) glosses in a romance language (Portuguese), unk...

    Algorithmic esthetics meets human intuition: the synergy of innovation and relevance shapes sustained attention

    Wen Guan, Shuai Ling, Li Zheng & Can ZhengFrontiers in Communication

    Artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence) technology empowers businesses to bypass designers and create brand logos directly through Artificial Intelligence tools. We focus on the effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence-generated logos in brand communication when Artificial Intelligence acts as an autonomous designer. Relevant research on visual attention has demonstrated the beneficial impact of innovation and relevance on brand communication. However, the combined impact of innovation and relevance on users’ sustained attention in Artificial I...

    A novel method for examining autistic children’s comprehension of individual words produced within delayed echolalia: a proof-of-concept pilot study

    Janine Mathée-Scott, Grace Corrigan, Emily Lorang, Zachary Hesse, Jennifer Johnson & Courtney E. VenkerFrontiers in Psychology

    Delayed echolalia, or the repetition of previously heard speech, is often observed in the expressive language of autistic children. Relatively little is known about how the production of delayed echolalia fits within the overall picture of autistic children's language ability, including receptive language. To date, no empirical studies have tested autistic children's comprehension of individual words within their delayed echoes. The present study aimed to establish proof-of-concept for a novel method of examining children's comprehension of individual wo...

    Objective Analysis of Reading Ability Using an Eye Tracker in Intermittent Exotropia

    Dong Hyun Kim, Jeong-Min Hwang & Hee Kyung YangLife

    Background/Objectives: This study's objective was to analyze the reading ability in patients with intermittent exotropia using an eye tracker and determine how the clinical characteristics of intermittent exotropia may affect reading ability. Methods: We compared the reading speed (LPS; letters per second) of 25 intermittent exotropia patients to 25 age-matched normal controls who were 13 years old or older with best-corrected visual acuities of ≥20/25. Correlations between reading ability and clinical characteristics of intermittent exotropia were evalu...

    Visual support in easy language: The impact of images on comprehension, perceived difficulty and eye movements

    Mariona González-Sordé, Olga Soler-Vilageliu, Krzysztof Krejtz & Izabela KrejtzLanguage and Cognition

    Abstract Easy Language (EL) presents information in a simplified way and benefits people who have difficulty understanding standard language. The present study evaluates the effects of visual support inclusion, as it is a recurring recommendation in EL guidelines. We examined 52 adults (23 men and 29 women; mean age of 39.9; 26 with intellectual disabilities [ID], 26 neurotypical) in a mixed design study. They read EL texts that presented either no visual support, photographs or illustrations. Their eye movements were recorded, and they answered comprehe...

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    Restorative benefits of multisensory experiences in a classical Chinese garden compared to visual experiences only

    Yanning Cai, Minkai Sun, Yudie Lu, Yuqin Wang & Seiko GotoFrontiers in Psychology

    Background: Classical Chinese gardens are renowned for their multisensory designs and are widely recognized for their potential to promote emotional well-being. The Humble Administrator's Garden was utilized in this study to assess how the multisensory integration embedded in its design influences psychological and physiological restoration.Methods: As a pilot study, a multi-modal quantitative approach compared participants' responses to the garden under two conditions: a real-world multisensory environment (Condition A) and a visual VR experience using ...

    A study of the effects of olfactory stimulus duration and concentration on sleep arousal under fatigue driving

    Faren Huo, Yingfan Lu, Fei Fang & Xuanhui LiuFrontiers in Psychology

    Olfactory stimulation can alleviate passive task-related fatigue (PTR), but its mechanism and influencing factors are still unclear. This study used a controlled experimental design to explore the effect of mint odor on driving fatigue by comparing the driving fatigue induction stage (monotonous driving) with the awakening stage (olfactory intervention). The experiment controlled the stimulation duration (1 min vs. 8 min), traffic flow (low vs. high), and concentration (low, medium, and high), and combined subjective scales, heart rate variability (HRV),...

    Instructional design complexity and pop-up notification interference: effects on attention allocation and information retention in virtual classrooms

    Yushan WangFrontiers in Psychology

    The growing prevalence of virtual multimedia learning environments raises questions about how instructional complexity and environmental interference jointly shape learning. This study examines the independent and interactive effects of instructional design complexity (IDC) and pop-up notification interference (PNI) on attention allocation and information retention. IDC was manipulated through instructional design, using streamlined layouts with concise text (low complexity) versus fragmented layouts with redundant on-screen text and background audio (hi...

    Reading an Artist’s Intention from the Composition (RArtificial IntelligenceC): eye movements and aesthetic experience in Japanese woodblock prints

    Yuka Nojo & Antoni B. ChanFrontiers in Psychology

    Background: Understanding the cognitive mechanisms and decision-making processes involved in aesthetic judgement of visual art has become a growing focus in recent research. While eye movements have been strongly associated with impression evaluations, the underlying processes linking gaze behaviour and aesthetic experience remain underexplored. Recent discourse suggests that compositional strategies in artworks may guide viewers' gaze and support narrative understanding.Objective: We hypothesised that the more closely a viewer's gaze follows the artist'...

    Word reading, reading comprehension, and eye movements during reading in Chinese persons with Aphasia

    Xiaobin Wang & Kimberly SmithAphasiology

    Individuals with aphasia (IWA) often exhibit challenges in single-word oral reading as well as in reading comprehension. Recently, eye-tracking technology has become instrumental in delving deeper into reading behaviors. Specifically, it has illuminated the differences in word reading and comprehension abilities among English speakers who have aphasia. However, there is a noticeable scarcity of research focusing on these aspects among Chinese IWA. This study aimed to compare single-word oral reading (regular, irregular, pseudowords) and comprehension abi...

    The Multifaceted Ganzfeld at the Crossroad Between Visual Perception and Consciousness: Behavioral, Neural and Qualitative Aspects

    Eleftheria Pistolas, Boris Quétard, Sucharit Katyal & Johan WagemansOpen Mind

    A Ganzfeld is a homogeneous visual field, devoid of focal points. Such a stimulus has been used by researchers to study perceptual phenomena in the absence of changes in sensory structure. Others have used it to study altered states of consciousness (ASCs). Until now, these different facets have been studied separately with little attention for the emotional subjective experience. This study aimed to elucidate the perceptual, phenomenal, and emotional experience of the multifaceted Ganzfeld using a multi-method approach combining behavioral (eye-tracking...

    Child–Parent Covariation on the Processing of Angry Facial Stimuli Predicts Children’s Reactive Aggression

    Antonios I. Christou, Kostas Fanti, Ioannis Mavrommatis & Georgia SoursouPsychology of Violence

    Objective: Attention allocation to angry facial stimuli has been described as an early marker of aggressive behavior in children. While parental practices are known to moderate associations between child neurocognitive reactivity and aggression, little is known about whether similarities or mismatches in parent–child gaze to anger cues contribute to aggression. Guided by the biosocial model of development, this study examined main and interactive effects of children’s callous–unemotional traits, social affiliation, and gaze to angry facial features, alon...

    Ageing modulates the effects of scene complexity on visual search and target selection in virtual environments

    Isaiah J. Lachica, Aniruddha Kalkar & James M. FinleyRoyal Society Open Science

    Processing task-relevant visual information is important for meveryday tasks. Prior work demonstrated that older adults are more susceptible to distraction by salient task-irrelevant stimuli, leading to less efficient visual search. However, these studies often used simple stimuli, and less is known about how ageing influences visual attention in environments more representative of real-world complexity. Here, we test the hypothesis that ageing impacts how the visual complexity of the environment influences visual search. Young and older adults completed...

    Development of visual motion perception from infancy to early childhood in full-term and premature children: A longitudinal high-density EEG study

    Jin Wang, Belde Mutaf-Yildiz, F R Ruud van der Weel & Audrey L H van der MeerNeuropsychologia

    Accurate perception of visual motion is crucial for daily activities and develops rapidly from infancy to childhood. High-density electroencephalogram (EEG) was utilized longitudinally to study brain responses to structured optic flow and random visual motion in 10 full-term and 10 preterm children at 4 months, 12 months, and 6 years. Visual evoked potential (VEP) analysis showed improved sensitivity to structured optic flow in full-term infants by the end of the first year, indicating effective use of structured information, whereas preterm children sho...

    Gray matter volumes of the superior temporal gyrus link preterm birth and developmentally disordered eye gazing patterns in toddlers at eighteen months

    Yanan Su, Guangfei Li, Shanmei Wang, Dongmei Hao, Clara S Li, Yiyao Ye-Lin, Xiaolin Wang, Ruolin Zhang, Lin Yang & Chiang-Shan R LiProgress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

    BACKGROUND: Preterm birth involves structural brain changes and increases the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders, including social cognitive dysfunction as implicated in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, it remains unclear whether or how volumetric brain changes may impact the risk of social cognitive dysfunction in toddlers of preterm birth.METHODS: We curated data of 569 toddlers approximately 18 months of age, including 76 with preterm (PB) and 493 with term (TB) birth, from the developing Human Connectome Project. We processed the imaging da...

    Interrogating Early Word Knowledge: Factors That Influence the Alignment Between Caregiver‐Report and Experimental Measures

    Haley Weaver & Jenny R. SaffranDevelopmental Science

    Questions about early word knowledge pervade the literature on both typical and atypical language trajectories. To determine which words an infant knows, researchers have relied on two types of measures-caregiver-report and eye-gaze behavior. When these measures are compared, however, their results frequently fail to converge, making it difficult to ascertain whether a given infant knows a given set of words. What are the reasons for these misalignments in gold-standard tasks that are designed to investigate the same underlying construct, and can converg...

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    Taking the eye-tracker out to dinner: characterizing spatial attention biases during an everyday behavior using computer vision

    S. Ladouce & C. R. GillebertScientific Reports

    Visual exploration during everyday tasks reveals attentional processes and offers promising avenues for clinical assessment. In this study, we examined whether the spatial attention bias induced by the presence of a mobile phone during a routine activity, eating dinner, can be effectively captured using wearable sensors that record gaze and body orientation. In a within-subject design, participants ate spaghetti while their mobile phone was either absent or placed on the left or right side of their tray. Our analyses focused on deviations in gaze and bod...

    The role of attitudes and attention in pro-environmental decision-making: An eye-tracking study

    Zoé Bollen, Annika M. Wyss, Emmanuel Guizar Rosales, Zarah Le Houcq Corbi & Daria KnochJournal of Environmental Psychology

    Encouraging environmentally sustainable lifestyles demands a deeper understanding of the processes underlying pro-environmental decision-making. This study investigates the role of environmental attitudes and attentional processes using eye-tracking technology during a decision-making task that involves real trade-offs between personal financial rewards and environmental consequences. We found partial evidence that stronger environmental attitudes – derived from the Campbell paradigm, but not from biospheric values – predicted an attentional prioritizati...

    Monosyllabic focus verbs disrupt reading fluency in Mandarin: evidence from eye-tracking

    Meiyuan ZhangFrontiers in Language Sciences

    Focus is a core component of information structure that highlights the most prominent element in a sentence. While pitch and duration are well-established prosodic markers of focus in Mandarin Chinese, the role of word length has received less attention. Due to historical developments, mMandarin words exhibit elastic length, appearing in both monosyllabic and disyllabic forms. In modern Chinese, however, there is a strong prosodic preference for disyllabic words as the minimal prosodic unit. This study tested whether using monosyllabic verbs in focus pos...

    Evaluating empathic responses to bimodal realism in emotionally expressive virtual humans: An eye-tracking and facial electromyography study

    Darragh Higgins, Benjamin R. Cowan & Rachel McDonnellInternational Journal of Human-Computer Studies

    With the expanding range of uses for advancements in animation and voice synthesis, more opportunities arise for interactions with animated virtual humans. Such interactions may be influenced by improved portrayals of character features such as emotion and realism. The present study aimed to examine how variations in animated facial detail and vocal prosody shape user perception of emotion in virtual characters. This impact was assessed via facial electromyography and eye-tracking measures, as well as self-reports of state empathy and character appeal. R...

    Investigating the impact of personalized headnotes for English-speaking audiences in viewing Chinese comedies

    Jing Wang, Sharon O'Brien & Ryoko SasamotoPerspectives

    This article explores the use of personalized headnotes (PHNs) to enhance the viewing experience of English-speaking audiences watching subtitled Chinese comedies. Based on personalization and relevance theory, this study employs eye-tracking, questionnaires, and interviews to assess the impact of PHNs on audience reception. Findings suggest that while PHNs enhance comprehension of cultural references, their effect on humor appreciation varies with individual preferences and viewing goals. This indicates the need for a tailored integration of subtitles a...

    Dissociable sensory, motor, and visuomotor predictive functions

    Inmaculada Márquez & Mario Treviñonpj Science of Learning

    The visual system continuously generates predictions to guide behavior, yet how visuomotor adaptation relates to sensory detection and motor variability remains unclear. We addressed this question using joystick-based tasks: a visuomotor interception task with angular or speed perturbations, a sensory detection task, and a no-feedback motor variability task. Participants showed robust within-task responses, with angular discrepancies engaging both external (target-based) and self-referential control, while speed discrepancies primarily involved self-refe...

    I spy with my little eye: Humans follow a horse-specific visual search pattern when examining Facial Expression and Emotions of horses with different levels of pain

    Debby D.M. Gudden, Inga A. Wolframm, Johannes P.A.M. van Loon, Elizabeth M. van Grevenhof, Madita Everding, Marion Y. Ballast, Peter R. Reuter, P. René van Weeren & Saskia S. ArndtApplied Animal Behaviour Science

    In daily interaction with horses, humans primarily rely on Facial Expression and Emotion as a non-verbal equine cue for emotional information. Difficulties in correctly recognizing these signals might arise due to the species-specificity of facial cues, possibly leading to diminished equine welfare and health. This study aimed to explore human visual search patterns when assessing equine Facial Expression and Emotions indicative of various pain levels, utilizing eye-tracking technology. Hundred and eight individuals (N = 108), classified into three group...

    Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics

    Zinong Yang, Stephanie D. Williams, Ewa Beldzik, Stephanie Anakwe, Emilia Schimmelpfennig & Laura D. LewisNature Neuroscience

    Sleep deprivation rapidly disrupts cognitive function and in the long term contributes to neurological disease. Why sleep deprivation has such profound effects on cognition is not well understood. Here we use simultaneous fast fMRI–EEG to test how sleep deprivation modulates cognitive, neural and fluid dynamics in the human brain. We demonstrate that attentional failures during wakefulness after sleep deprivation are tightly orchestrated in a series of brain–body changes, including neuronal shifts, pupil constriction and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow pu...

    Enhancing Visual Performance: Contrast Polarity, Visual Search, and Distractor Suppression

    Jakob Lütkemeier, Christine Horn, Marian Mc Donnell & Sean HenriquesLecture Notes in Networks and Systems Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference FTC 2025 Volume 1

    AbstractWhile dark mode—bright text on a dark background—is increasingly popular, concerns about its impact on visual performance are growing. Grounded in cognitive psychology and theories of visual attention, this study examined whether contrast polarity (positive polarity: dark text on a bright background, or “light mode”; negative polarity: bright text on a dark background, or “dark mode”) influences visual search performance and distractor suppression. Participants completed a letter search task under both polarity conditions, with task-irrelevant fa...

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    Automatic neural mechanisms of social synchrony: pupil and Blink responses in adults with ADHD symptoms

    Or Lipschits, Sapir Sadon & Ronny GevaJournal of Neural Transmission

    Human social interactions involve both conscious behaviors, such as speech and gestures, and automatic responses regulated by dopaminergic and noradrenergic neural networks, including pupil dilation and blinking. Dysfunctions in dopamine and noradrenaline activity, common in ADHD, impair automatic social processes such as physiological synchrony and anticipation, leading to broader difficulties in social cognition and interpersonal relationships. Shifting the lens from overt behaviors to automatic processes that lie at the core of social interaction, the...

    Human vs AI: How Digital Human News Anchors Affect Our Cognitive Processes?

    Yan-Kai Liu, Shunyang Yao, Tao Xi, Bao-Liang Lu & Wei-Long ZhengProceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia

    With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) technology, digital human representations are increasingly appearing in multimedia interactions. This trend is particularly prominent in news broadcasting. The uniformity of news anchors' appearances and broadcasting environments has facilitated the widespread adoption of AI-powered news anchors. With high accuracy in news reporting and advancements in technology, AI anchors have been increasingly implemented in various news programs. However, there is currently a lack of objective ...

    INFLUENCE OF AEROBIC EXERCISE AND DIETARY INTERVENTION ON EXECUTIVE FUNCTION IN OBESE CHILDREN: DEPTHWISE SEPARABLE CONVOLUTIONAL NETWORK-BASED ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM ANALYSIS

    Xin Jing, Borhannudin bin Abdullah & Hazizi bin Abu SaadJournal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology

    Introduction: Childhood obesity not only impairs physical health but also adversely affects executive function. Although aerobic exercise and dietary interventions can improve cognition, traditional assessment methods are inadequate for capturing real-time brain activity. Moreover, there is a lack of research utilizing deep learning to analyze the electroencephalogram (EEG) for investigating the neural mechanisms underlying executive function in children with obesity. Methods: This study enrolled 100 students (50 in the obese group, 50 in the normal-weig...

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    Attentional Dynamics During Emotional Face Processing Differentiate Alexithymia From Mood and Affective Symptoms

    Jiyeon Seo, Roshni Dwivedi, Kim Ngan Hoang, Alessandro Selvitella & Esther FujiwaraJournal of Personality

    INTRODUCTION: Alexithymia refers to difficulties in experiencing and expressing emotions, differentiating them from bodily sensations, restricted imagination, and externally oriented thinking. Mood and affective symptoms are often confounded with alexithymia due to the typical assessment through self-report. Performance measures may allow a more objective assessment of alexithymia. The goal of this study was to identify unique or shared performance-based features during emotional face processing.METHODS: A total of 171 students provided data on alexithym...

    Research on visual search strategies during apparatus throw-and-catch in group rhythmic gymnastics

    Chuncen Zhou, Yujun Cai, Kai Li, Xinmiao Zhang & Changhao TangFrontiers in Psychology

    Objective: This study aimed to investigate the visual search characteristics and strategies of expert rhythmic gymnasts during apparatus throw-and-catch tasks under different apparatus types and difficulty levels, in order to provide theoretical support for optimizing routine choreography and designing effective visual training programs.Methods: Fifteen rhythmic gymnasts at or above the national first-class level were recruited. Tobii Pro Glasses 3 wearable eye tracker was used to collect eye movement data during four throw-and-catch tasks of varying dif...

    Saying is Believing: Exploring the Importance of Artificial Intelligence ‐Generated Content Disclosure and User Trust

    Rui Wang, Boyuan Jia & Pu YanProceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology

    As Artificial Intelligence‐generated content (Artificial IntelligenceGC) becomes increasingly prevalent across digital platforms, understanding its impact on users' trust and attitudes toward this new technology is crucial. Using an experimental design, we examined how the presence or absence of disclosing the use of Artificial Intelligence in content generation influences user engagement with Artificial Intelligence‐generated images and videos on social media platforms. Our experiment recruited 64 individuals (N control group =31, N experiment group =33...

    Abstraction and concreteness: how cultural inspiration influences design creativity

    Xuan Qin, Weimin Jing, Ruoqi Cheng, Yinying Zhang & Mingzhu YuInternational Journal of Technology and Design Education

    Inspiration plays a crucial role in both design activities and design education. This study conceptualizes “ancient cultural heritage” as “cultural inspiration“(CI) and categorizes it into two types: “abstract inspiration” (AbI) and “concrete inspiration“(CoI). The research aims to examine the significant role of different types of cultural inspiration in cultural product design activities. Through an exploratory experiment, design students were tasked with drawing inspiration from the features of ancient cultural heritage, generating as mdesign ideas as...

    Existing Cues Fail: A Mixed‐Method Study on the Identification of Virtual Influencers

    Fan Jin & Pengyi ZhangProceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology

    This study investigates users’ identification of virtual influencers in social media. A mixed‐method study consisting of an eye‐tracking experiment and an interview with 60 participants was conducted. The results show that users can identify VIs with moderate accuracy. Users have relatively comprehensive but insufficient identification criteria and complex attitudes toward VIs. These findings suggest implications for Artificial Intelligence literacy education.

    Head and Eye Movements During Pedestrian Crossing in Patients with Visual Impairment: A Virtual Reality Eye Tracking Study

    Mark Mervic, Ema Grašič, Polona Jaki Mekjavić, Nataša Vidovič Valentinčič & Ana FakinLecture Notes in Computer Science Social Robotics AI

    Real-world navigation depends on coordinated head–eye behaviour that standard tests of visual function miss. We investigated how visual impairment affects traffic navigation, whether behaviour differs by visual impairment type, and whether this functional grouping better explains performance than WHO categorisation. Using a virtual reality (VR) headset with integrated head and eye tracking, we evaluated detection of moving cars and safe road-crossing opportunities in 40 patients with central, peripheral, or combined visual impairment and 19 controls. Onl...

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    Comparative eye-tracking analysis of visual behavior of normal developing and autistic children in response to human faces and emotional expressions

    Mohamad Basel Al Mourad & Emad BatainehAdvances in Autism

    PurposeAutism is a prevalent childhood neurodevelopmental condition with a high hereditary likelihood, and it manifests as a clinical syndrome with varying impairments in language and social behavior as well as the existence of constrictive interests and repetitive behaviors. It is essential for both early diagnosis and intervention to comprehend how autistic people behave visually when exposed to human Facial Expression and Emotions and emotions. The purpose of this study is to investigate how autistic individuals visually respond to human Facial Expres...

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    Early threat experiences relate to reduced neural face discrimination in youth with emerging psychiatric symptoms: A frequency-tagging EEG study

    Zhiling Qiao, Celine Samaey, Stephanie Van der Donck, Victor Mazereel, Lise Jennen, Davy Vancampfort, Ruud van Winkel & Bart BoetsSocial Cognitive And Affective Neuroscience

    Studies linking childhood adversity with risk for psychopathology suggest a threat-related information processing bias in those exposed. We combined frequency-tagging electroencephalography (EEG) and eye-tracking to assess automatic and implicit Facial Expression and Emotion processing in youth aged 16–24 years with childhood adversity and emerging psychiatric symptoms (N = 52) as compared to healthy controls (N = 47). Neural discrimination of angry or happy faces from neutral faces was assessed via an EEG oddball paradigm. Neural responses and preferent...

    Early threat experiences relate to reduced neural face discrimination in youth with emerging psychiatric symptoms: A frequency-tagging EEG study

    Zhiling Qiao, Celine Samaey, Stephanie Van der Donck, Victor Mazereel, Lise Jennen, Davy Vancampfort, Ruud van Winkel & Bart Boets

    Studies linking childhood adversity with risk for psychopathology suggest a threat-related information processing bias in those exposed. We combined frequency-tagging electroencephalography (EEG) and eye-tracking to assess automatic and implicit Facial Expression and Emotion processing in youth aged 16–24 years with childhood adversity and emerging psychiatric symptoms (N = 52) as compared to healthy controls (N = 47). Neural discrimination of angry or happy faces from neutral faces was assessed via an EEG oddball paradigm. Neural responses and preferent...

    Infants organize their learning process based on the same or different informants

    Ruolan Ling & Kazuo HirakiPLOS One

    From the preverbal period, infants can distinguish different informants in social interactions and adjust their engagement accordingly. Yet little is known about whether these informant-based adaptations take shape during infants’ initial knowledge acquisition, before their manifestation in behaviours. To address this question, we conducted two gaze-contingent experiments to examine how infants organize their learning process according to the identities of informants in social interactions. In each experiment, infants were randomly assigned to learn two ...

    The impact of greening interventions in school grounds on social behavior and cognitive performance among primary school children

    Lore Verheyen, Bo H. W. van Engelen, Bjorn Winkens, Kenneth Vanbrabant, Ellen Hannes, Tim S. Nawrot, Robert Malina, Onno C. P. van Schayck & Michelle PlusquinFrontiers in Public Health

    Background: Green spaces have been identified as beneficial for children's mental health, as well as cognitive performance, however, less is known about the role of biodiversity within these environments. Here, we study the impact of greening schoolyards, especially with regard to biodiversity enrichment, on children's behavior, emotion recognition, cognitive performance and mental effort, and attentional bias, compared to observations in control schools.Methods: This study employs an interventional design, including two intervention and two control scho...

    MERD-360VR: A Multimodal Emotional Response Dataset from 360° VR Videos Across Different Age Groups

    Qiang Chen, Shikun Zhou, Yuming Fang, Dan Luo & Tingsong LuProceedings of the 27th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

    Virtual Reality (VR) technologies provide interactive experiences capable of evoking a wide spectrum of emotional responses from users. However, there is a notable scarcity of VR-based multimodal emotional response datasets designed to enhance the accuracy of emotionally immersive film and television productions. To address this gap, we conducted a study to develop a comprehensive, multimodal, annotated dataset capturing users’ affective, physiological, and behavioral responses to 360° panoramic videos in immersive VR environment. Our dataset specificall...

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    Eye Tracking Screening for ASD in Nursery: Is Early Diagnosis Possible? A Large-scale Real-life Experiment

    Victor Hugo da Silva, Yasmine R. Martins, Pedro A. S. O. Neto, Joana Portolese, Fátima R. Fernandes, Carlos Takeuchi, Fernanda O. A. Lima, Marcilia L. Martyn, Katerina Lukasova & Edson AmaroJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

    PurposeThe goal of this study was to evaluate eye-tracking screening for ASD among 585 typically developing toddlers 7 to 48 months of age in vulnerable districts of São Paulo.MethodsEye-tracking assessment was done with children in the participating community nurseries on Joint Attention, composed of the Initiation Joint Attention (IJA) and Responding to Joint Attention (RJA). All parents responded to the questionnaire on the educational level and socioeconomic family status (SES). Children received ratings on the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) by...

    Face to face with an expert: Exploring joint visual attention during forensic face and feature comparison learning in expert-novice pairs

    Christine C.A. van Nooijen, Bjorn B. de Koning, Ellen Kok, Anna Isahakyan, Maryam Asoodar & Fred Paas

    Visual expertise occurs in professional domains where comprehension of visual material is central to performance, such as in forensic analysis. Despite the prominence of apprenticeship in various visual domains, the didactic strategies employed by visual experts to scaffold novices during one-on-one interactions remain insufficiently explored. This multiple case study introduces a data-driven approach to capturing and coding expert-novice pairs’ interaction based on joint visual attention (JVA). Three registered forensic experts (>10 years’ experience) t...

    The Effect of Visual Attention Dispersion on Cognitive Response Time

    Yejin Lee & Kwangtae JungLecture Notes in Computer Science Social Robotics AI

    In safety-critical systems like nuclear power plants, the rapid and accurate perception of visual interface information is vital. This study investigates the relationship between visual attention dispersion measured via heatmap entropy (as a specific measure of gaze entropy) and response time during information search tasks. Sixteen participants viewed a prototype of an accident response support system and answered questions at three difficulty levels while their eye movements were tracked using Tobii Pro Glasses 2. Results showed a significant positive ...

    Multimodal biomarker based on temporal complexity of eye movements and Pupil Research diameter in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    Ayumu Ueno, Sou Nobukawa & Aya ShiramaPLOS Mental Health

    Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most prevalent neurodevelopmental disorders without established biomarkers. Pupil Research diameter, regulated by the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) system, and eye movements controlled by diverse brain regions exhibit specific patterns in patients with ADHD due to abnormal activity in these brain regions. Previous studies reported that patients with ADHD have larger Pupil Research diameters and reduced temporal complexity. However, although the temporal complexity of eye movements has...

    A Screen-based Multimodal Virtual Classroom Interface for Understanding Behavioral Sensory Responses in Autistic Adolescents: A Pilot Study

    Zhiwei Yu, Suzannah Iadarola, Samantha Daley & Zhi ZhengJournal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

    Autism impacts at least 1 in 100 children worldwide, with about 90% experiencing sensory processing difficulties. Virtual Reality (VR), which can precisely deliver controlled sensory stimuli, has emerged as a promising tool for studying sensory experiences. However, VR systems using a head-mounted display may cause discomfort and exacerbate sensory challenges for autistic children. Screen-based VR could offer a viable alternative, but research on designing multimodal sensory delivery systems that simulate real-life experiences remains limited. As a resul...

    Predicting blink rate and Pupil Research diameter from ADHD symptoms: Effects of white noise stimulation in an experimental study

    Erica Jostrup, Emma Claesdotter-Knutsson, Pia Tallberg, Göran Söderlund, Peik Gustafsson & Marcus NyströmBrain Disorders

    Background Children with ADHD are reported to have lower dopamine (DA) and norepinephrine (NE) levels compared to typically developing children. We exploratively investigated how blink rate and Pupil Research diameter, which are considered to be proxies for DA and NE signaling, were related to ADHD symptom severity. Moreover, we tested whether this relation is modulated by auditory white noise stimulation, which has been suggested as a non-pharmacological treatment for children with ADHD. Method We measured blink rate and Pupil Research diameter in 97 ch...

    Visual attention and role recognition in bullying vignettes in preadolescents and adults

    Laura Menabò & Annalisa GuariniBritish Journal of Educational Psychology

    BackgroundBullying research has traditionally relied on self‐reported measures such as questionnaires and interviews. Previous studies have shown developmental differences in attention mechanisms, with adults relying more on top‐down processing and younger individuals on bottom‐up attention. However, it remains unclear whether these differences extend to bullying scene observation and how they influence the perception of different bullying roles.AimsThis study examined differences in visual attention (total fixation duration, visit count, fixation count)...

    Formation of Price Perception Through Window Displays: The Roles of Turning Bias, Product Placement, and Objective Temporality

    Wagner Júnior Ladeira, Weng Marc Lim, Fernando de Oliveira Santini, Tareq Rasul, Abhishek Borah & Syed Hasan JafarNutrition Reviews

    Window displays are crucial in capturing consumer attention. However, the connection between how these displays guide attention and influence price perception remains underexplored. This study investigates how turning bias and product placement along the vertical axis (hereafter, vertical product placement) jointly guide attention and shape price perception, including under the influence of objective temporality, through eight experiments. Findings reveal that turning bias directs attention to specific vertical locations (Studies 1a–1d), wherein a clockw...

    Producing and processing word combinations in an L2: An eye-tracking study exploring the individual learner experience

    Luciana Forti, Irene Fioravanti, Veronica D’Alesio, Maria Roccaforte & Stefania Spina

    Integration between production data and processing data has generally been based on the combination between corpus-based measures and psycholinguistic experiments. The main limitation of this approach is that the sample of participants providing these two kinds of data will be different, thus entailing the impossibility of investigating how production and processing are related at the level of the individual. This is particularly true when it comes to a key component in second language development such as word combinations, which has attracted attention ...

    Evaluation of a virtual reality-based office room for a multimodal assessment of adult ADHD

    Julian Pakos, Laura Asché, Anna Popova, Carl Heine, Dario Sanchez, Behrem Aslan, Benjamin Selaskowski, Madita Fuchs, Ulrich Ettinger, Alexandra Philipsen, Niclas Braun & Annika Wiebe

    Traditional neuropsychological tests still have limited diagnostic value for assessing adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as they often fail to fully capture ADHD symptoms in everyday life. Recent studies suggest that virtual reality (VR) has the potential to alleviate this problem by enabling the creation of more naturalistic and symptom-relevant test environments. Following prior research investigating VR as an assessment method for ADHD, the present study reports on a VR scenario that does not only entail a realistic environment bu...

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    MEFD dataset and GCSFormer model : Cross-subject emotion recognition based on multimodal physiological signals

    Xiangyu Deng, Zhecong Fan & Wenbo Dong

    Cross-subject emotion recognition is an important research direction in the fields of affective computing and brain-computer interfaces, aiming to identify the emotional states of different individuals through physiological signals such as functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and electroencephalogram (EEG). Currently, most EEG-based emotion recognition datasets are unimodal or bimodal, which may overlook the emotional information reflected by other physiological signals of the subjects. In this paper, a multimodal dataset named Multimodal Emotio...

    Guiding the Gaze: How Bionic Reading Influences Eye Movements

    T. R. BeeldersLecture Notes in Computer Science Social Robotics AI

    In recent years, Bionic reading has been introduced as a means to combat superficial reading and low comprehension rates. This paper investigates eye movements between participants who read a passage in standard font and an additional Bionic font passage. It was found that Bionic font does not significantly change eye movements when reading. Fixation durations, number of fixations and reading speeds were not significantly different between the two formats. Furthermore, fixations were spread throughout the word and not only on leading characters, even whe...

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