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Avoiding potential pitfalls in visual search and eye-movement experiments: A tutorial review

Examining eye-movement behavior during visual search is an increasingly popular approach for gaining insights into the moment-to-moment processing that takes place when we look for targets in our environment. In this tutorial review, we describe a set of pitfalls and considerations that are importan...

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Autores principales: Godwin, Hayward J., Hout, Michael C., Alexdóttir, Katrín J., Walenchok, Stephen C., Barnhart, Anthony S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Springer US 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8460493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34089167
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02326-w
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author Godwin, Hayward J.
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Walenchok, Stephen C.
Barnhart, Anthony S.
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description Examining eye-movement behavior during visual search is an increasingly popular approach for gaining insights into the moment-to-moment processing that takes place when we look for targets in our environment. In this tutorial review, we describe a set of pitfalls and considerations that are important for researchers – both experienced and new to the field – when engaging in eye-movement and visual search experiments. We walk the reader through the research cycle of a visual search and eye-movement experiment, from choosing the right predictions, through to data collection, reporting of methodology, analytic approaches, the different dependent variables to analyze, and drawing conclusions from patterns of results. Overall, our hope is that this review can serve as a guide, a talking point, a reflection on the practices and potential problems with the current literature on this topic, and ultimately a first step towards standardizing research practices in the field. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.3758/s13414-021-02326-w.
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spelling pubmed-84604932021-10-07 Avoiding potential pitfalls in visual search and eye-movement experiments: A tutorial review Godwin, Hayward J. Hout, Michael C. Alexdóttir, Katrín J. Walenchok, Stephen C. Barnhart, Anthony S. Atten Percept Psychophys Tutorial Review Examining eye-movement behavior during visual search is an increasingly popular approach for gaining insights into the moment-to-moment processing that takes place when we look for targets in our environment. In this tutorial review, we describe a set of pitfalls and considerations that are important for researchers – both experienced and new to the field – when engaging in eye-movement and visual search experiments. We walk the reader through the research cycle of a visual search and eye-movement experiment, from choosing the right predictions, through to data collection, reporting of methodology, analytic approaches, the different dependent variables to analyze, and drawing conclusions from patterns of results. Overall, our hope is that this review can serve as a guide, a talking point, a reflection on the practices and potential problems with the current literature on this topic, and ultimately a first step towards standardizing research practices in the field. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.3758/s13414-021-02326-w. Springer US 2021-06-04 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8460493/ /pubmed/34089167 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02326-w Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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