Classifying Mental States From Eye Movements During Scene Viewing.

How eye movements reflect underlying cognitive processes during scene viewing has been a topic of considerable theoretical interest. In this study, we used eye-movement features and their distributions over time to successfully classify mental states as indexed by the behavioral task performed by pa...

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Publicado en:Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception & Performance Vol. 41; no. 6; pp. 1502 - 1515
Autores principales: Kardan, Omid, Berman, Marc G., Yourganov, Grigori, Schmidt, Joseph, Henderson, John M.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: American Psychological Association Dec2015
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          Berman, Marc G.
          Yourganov, Grigori
          Schmidt, Joseph
          Henderson, John M.
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          The University of Chicago
          University of South Carolina
          University of California, Davis
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        Cognitive ability
        Aesthetics
        Eye movements
        Visual perception
        Memorization
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        classification
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      ab: How eye movements reflect underlying cognitive processes during scene viewing has been a topic of considerable theoretical interest. In this study, we used eye-movement features and their distributions over time to successfully classify mental states as indexed by the behavioral task performed by participants. We recorded eye movements from 72 participants performing 3 scene-viewing tasks: visual search, scene memorization, and aesthetic preference. To classify these tasks, we used statistical features (mean, standard deviation, and skewness) of fixation durations and saccade amplitudes, as well as the total number of fixations. The same set of visual stimuli was used in all tasks to exclude the possibility that different salient scene features influenced eye movements across tasks. All of the tested classification algorithms were successful in predicting the task within a single participant. The linear discriminant algorithm was also successful in predicting the task for each participant when the training data came from other participants, suggesting some generalizability across participants. The number of fixations contributed most to task classification; however, the remaining features and, in particular, their covariance provided important task-specific information. These results provide evidence on how participants perform different visual tasks. In the visual search task, for example, participants exhibited more variance and skewness in fixation durations and saccade amplitudes, but also showed heightened correlation between fixation durations and the variance in fixation durations. In summary, these results point to the possibility that eye-movement features and their distributional properties can be used to classify mental states both within and across individuals.
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