Featured EyeLink Article: 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. There are variations to this strategy, and researchers have formalized these variations into what they call
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 blog (the first of a series) I outline some of the key terms that refer to eye movements themselves. Future blogs will address the terminology around eye tracking data
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 see if the baby can fixate and follow the finger's movement with his eyes. There is great interest in babies meeting milestones in order to assess health and, if necessary, provide support. Can, in fact,
Highly Cited EyeLink Articles
Eye Tracking Publications We have recently finished updating our database of EyeLink publications - there were more than 900 papers published in 2019 alone, and the database now contains well over 8000 publications in total. Each publication is checked individually to ensure that it contains data
Evidence for Implicit Theory of Mind
Featured EyeLink Article: Having the ability to understand things from another person’s viewpoint is critical for successful social interactions and relationships. Theory of Mind research examines this ability to mentalize another person's thoughts. Specifically, Theory of Mind refers to both the
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 just expected to understand. This blog is my attempt to explain visual angle in the way I wish someone had explained it to me, e.g. with the bare minimum of math...
Meaning Guides Eye Movements
Featured EyeLink Article: Peripheral vision is optimized to detect movement and large shapes. For example, in the above image, a person looking at the green field is likely to note an odd, large shape in the periphery but not any of its details. In order to resolve detail, the person's center
The Magic of Change Blindness
Featured EyeLink Article: Magicians are generous to researchers. Not only do their tricks inspire scientific questions, but those tricks also provide spellbinding demonstrations to hook and interest kids and adults alike. Inspiration and fascination can't be underestimated. They open doors to
Featured EyeLink Articles
Thousands of articles using EyeLink eye trackers have been published over the last two decades. Many of these articles are in high-impact journals including Nature Neuroscience, Psychological Science, Neuron, PNAS, and many more. Researchers also use EyeLinks to gain insight into a wide range of
Eye Tracking for Pupillometry
Researchers are increasingly using eye trackers to explore changes in pupil size (pupillometry) in order to reveal insights into cognitive processes. EyeLink eye trackers are capable of detecting changes in pupil size of just 0.1% of the pupil diameter, and their high sampling rates allow pupilliary
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 part in the promotion of free and accessible research, we have a blog post listing open-access journals that regularly publish eye-tracking research. Here, we
Eye Tracking and EEG
The benefits of combinging Eye Tracking with EEG Recording Researchers are increasingly aware of the benefits of combining eye tracking with EEG and other neurophysiological recording equipment. One of the most common rationales for recording simultaneous EEG and eye tracking data is "artefact