EyeLink 3 Screen Pixel Data
The EyeLink 3 simultaneously tracks both eye and head movements at up to 1000 Hz. The standard six degrees of freedom (6DOF) head data …
Head Tracking
Research into head movements can provide insights into a wide range of topics, including non-verbal communication, attention, and …
How to Tell if Someone is Lying
People lie. Some people lie a lot and proficiently. Given this unsettling (and somewhat unsurprising) fact, an objective means by which …
Cognitive Load, Working Memory and Pupil Size
John Sweller developed cognitive load theory in the late 1980s to explain how a task’s difficulty level can affect our ability to …
Reading Profile of Adults with Dyslexia
Reading involves a very characteristic “stop-start” or “fixate-saccade” sequence of eye movements. During fixations, the eye …
Dyslexia in Adults
There is a large body of academic research that documents profound differences in reading skills between children with and without …
Dyslexia Definition
Dyslexia is a neurobiological learning disorder that affects a person’s ability to read. This basic description hides the …
Dogs Eye Track & Anticipate Frisbee Destination
Our ability to predict a moving object’s destination can be very useful. For example, predicting where a flying rock will be in a few …
Perceiving Klimt
In the sketch below, you can see the tree’s tangled branches and leaves under a brightly lit moon. The artist’s realistic …
2020 EyeLink Publication Update
Another year has passed (and what a year…), and we’ve updated our publication database again. 2020 may not have been a vintage year in …
How to Improve Second Language Learning
When learning vocabulary in a new language, it is quite common to just repeat (over and over and over again) the to-be-remembered word. …
Eye Tracking Terminology – Eye Movements
Eye-tracking research can sometimes feel like a bit of a terminological minefield, particularly if you are new to the topic. In this …
When do babies track objects?
It is not uncommon to see an adult hold up a finger and move it across a baby’s field of view to determine if the baby can fixate …
Highly Cited EyeLink Articles
We have recently finished updating our database of EyeLink publications – there were more than 900 papers published in 2019 alone, …
Evidence for Implicit Theory of Mind
Having the ability to understand things from another person’s viewpoint is critical for successful social interactions and …
Visual Angle
The concept of visual angle is critical to many aspects of eye-tracking research, but it is one of those things that people are somehow …
Meaning Guides Eye Movements
Peripheral vision is optimized to detect movement and large shapes. For example, in the above image, a person looking at the green field …
The Magic of Change Blindness
Magicians are generous to researchers. Not only do their tricks inspire scientific questions, but those tricks also provide spellbinding …
Featured EyeLink Articles
Thousands of articles using EyeLink eye trackers have been published over the last two decades. Many of these articles are in …
Eye Tracking for Pupillometry
Researchers are increasingly using eye trackers to explore changes in pupil size (pupillometry) in order to reveal insights into …
Data Repositories for Eye-Tracking Research
At SR Research, we are keen to support open-access publishing as well as the sharing and distribution of research data. To play a small …
Eye Tracking and EEG
Researchers are increasingly aware of the benefits of combining eye tracking with EEG and other neurophysiological recording equipment. …
EyeLink Publications
Another change behind the scenes is that we are now using proper reference management software to store all the publications, and this …
Eye-Tracking Conferences
There are a number of conferences around the world that include eye-tracking research. Some conferences specifically focus only on …