Parsing eye-tracking data of variable quality to provide accurate fixation duration estimates in infants and adults

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 229-250

  Wass, S V ^a   Smith, T J ^a   Johnson, M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Eyetracker methodology; Fixation duration; Free viewing; Infant; Naturalistic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; OCULOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TIME;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTIFACTS; ATTENTION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SACCADES; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84874363469     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-012-0245-6     Document Type: Article

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