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ReviewDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2017

Beyond eye gaze: What else can eyetracking reveal about cognition and cognitive development?

Maria K Eckstein, Belén Guerra-Carrillo, Alison T Miller Singley, Silvia A Bunge

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Review in Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 210 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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210citing papers in PubMed, 10 pooled it
19.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

210 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 659 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maria K EcksteinDepartment of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, United States.
Belén Guerra-CarrilloDepartment of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, United States.
Alison T Miller SingleyDepartment of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, United States.
Silvia A BungeDepartment of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, United States; Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California at Berkeley, United States. Electronic address: sbunge@berkeley.edu.
University of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review provides an introduction to two eyetracking measures that can be used to study cognitive development and plasticity: pupil dilation and spontaneous blink rate. We begin by outlining the rich history of gaze analysis, which can reveal the current focus of attention as well as cognitive strategies. We then turn to the two lesser-utilized ocular measures. Pupil dilation is modulated by the brain's locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system, which controls physiological arousal and attention, and has been used as a measure of subjective task difficulty, mental effort, and neural gain. Spontaneous eyeblink rate correlates with levels of dopamine in the central nervous system, and can reveal processes underlying learning and goal-directed behavior. Taken together, gaze, pupil dilation, and blink rate are three non-invasive and complementary measures of cognition with high temporal resolution and well-understood neural foundations. Here we review the neural foundations of pupil dilation and blink rate, provide examples of their usage, describe analytic methods and methodological considerations, and discuss their potential for research on learning, cognitive development, and plasticity.

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AttentionBrainCognitionFemaleFixation, OcularHumansMalePupilBlink rateChildrenEyetrackingPupil dilationPupillometrySaccades

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PMID27908561
PMCPMC6987826
OpenAlexW2556086565

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