ArticleJournal of eye movement research2021
The interplay between task difficulty and microsaccade rate: Evidence for the critical role of visual load.
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- Eyes on the past: Gaze stability differs between temporal expectation and temporal attention.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Study on the Driver Visual Workload in High-Density Interchange-Merging Areas Based on a Field Driving Test.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- An eye tracking study of the application of gestalt theory in photography.Journal of eye movement research · 2023Article
- Mobile eye tracking applied as a tool for customer experience research in a crowded train station.Journal of eye movement research · 2023Article
- Eye Tracking and Visual Arts. Introduction to the Special Thematic Issue.Journal of eye movement research · 2020Article
- Introduction to Special Thematic Issue, part 2 "Microsaccades: Empirical Research and Methodological Advances".Journal of eye movement research · 2020Article
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Abstract
In previous research, microsaccades have been suggested as psychophysiological indicators of task load. So far, it is still under debate how different types of task demands are influencing microsaccade rate. This piece of research examines the relation between visual load, mental load and microsaccade rate. Fourteen participants carried out a continuous performance task (n-back), in which visual (letters vs. abstract figures) and mental task load (1-back to 4-back) were manipulated as within-subjects variables. Eye tracking data, performance data as well as subjective workload were recorded. Data analysis revealed an increased level of microsaccade rate for stimuli of high visual demand (i.e. abstract figures), while mental demand (n-back-level) did not modulate microsaccade rate. In conclusion, the present results suggest that microsaccade rate reflects visual load of a task rather than its mental load.
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