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A Novel Eye Movement Data Transformation Technique that Preserves Temporal Information: A Demonstration in a Face Processing Task
Existing research has shown that human eye-movement data conveys rich information about underlying mental processes, and that the latter may be inferred from the former. However, most related studies rely on spatial information about which different areas of visual stimuli were looked at, without co...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6567129/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31126117 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19102377 |
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author | Król, Michał Król, Magdalena Ewa |
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description | Existing research has shown that human eye-movement data conveys rich information about underlying mental processes, and that the latter may be inferred from the former. However, most related studies rely on spatial information about which different areas of visual stimuli were looked at, without considering the order in which this occurred. Although powerful algorithms for making pairwise comparisons between eye-movement sequences (scanpaths) exist, the problem is how to compare two groups of scanpaths, e.g., those registered with vs. without an experimental manipulation in place, rather than individual scanpaths. Here, we propose that the problem might be solved by projecting a scanpath similarity matrix, obtained via a pairwise comparison algorithm, to a lower-dimensional space (the comparison and dimensionality-reduction techniques we use are ScanMatch and t-SNE). The resulting distributions of low-dimensional vectors representing individual scanpaths can be statistically compared. To assess if the differences result from temporal scanpath features, we propose to statistically compare the cross-validated accuracies of two classifiers predicting group membership: (1) based exclusively on spatial metrics; (2) based additionally on the obtained scanpath representation vectors. To illustrate, we compare autistic vs. typically-developing individuals looking at human faces during a lab experiment and find significant differences in temporal scanpath features. |
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spelling | pubmed-65671292019-06-17 A Novel Eye Movement Data Transformation Technique that Preserves Temporal Information: A Demonstration in a Face Processing Task Król, Michał Król, Magdalena Ewa Sensors (Basel) Article Existing research has shown that human eye-movement data conveys rich information about underlying mental processes, and that the latter may be inferred from the former. However, most related studies rely on spatial information about which different areas of visual stimuli were looked at, without considering the order in which this occurred. Although powerful algorithms for making pairwise comparisons between eye-movement sequences (scanpaths) exist, the problem is how to compare two groups of scanpaths, e.g., those registered with vs. without an experimental manipulation in place, rather than individual scanpaths. Here, we propose that the problem might be solved by projecting a scanpath similarity matrix, obtained via a pairwise comparison algorithm, to a lower-dimensional space (the comparison and dimensionality-reduction techniques we use are ScanMatch and t-SNE). The resulting distributions of low-dimensional vectors representing individual scanpaths can be statistically compared. To assess if the differences result from temporal scanpath features, we propose to statistically compare the cross-validated accuracies of two classifiers predicting group membership: (1) based exclusively on spatial metrics; (2) based additionally on the obtained scanpath representation vectors. To illustrate, we compare autistic vs. typically-developing individuals looking at human faces during a lab experiment and find significant differences in temporal scanpath features. MDPI 2019-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6567129/ /pubmed/31126117 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19102377 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Król, Michał Król, Magdalena Ewa A Novel Eye Movement Data Transformation Technique that Preserves Temporal Information: A Demonstration in a Face Processing Task |
title | A Novel Eye Movement Data Transformation Technique that Preserves Temporal Information: A Demonstration in a Face Processing Task |
title_full | A Novel Eye Movement Data Transformation Technique that Preserves Temporal Information: A Demonstration in a Face Processing Task |
title_fullStr | A Novel Eye Movement Data Transformation Technique that Preserves Temporal Information: A Demonstration in a Face Processing Task |
title_full_unstemmed | A Novel Eye Movement Data Transformation Technique that Preserves Temporal Information: A Demonstration in a Face Processing Task |
title_short | A Novel Eye Movement Data Transformation Technique that Preserves Temporal Information: A Demonstration in a Face Processing Task |
title_sort | novel eye movement data transformation technique that preserves temporal information: a demonstration in a face processing task |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6567129/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31126117 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19102377 |
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