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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2024

A Review of the Use of Gaze and Pupil Metrics to Assess Mental Workload in Gamified and Simulated Sensorimotor Tasks.

Holly Gorin, Jigna Patel, Qinyin Qiu, Alma Merians, Sergei Adamovich, Gerard Fluet

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Valence-Arousal Asymmetry: Rethinking Facial Emotion Recognition in Preschool Autism Through Eye-Tracking.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026
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  5. Task-Evoked Pupillary Dynamics Are Altered in Post-COVID Syndrome.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  10. Disentangling the Neural Circuits of Arousal and Anxiety-Like Behavior.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Holly GorinRehabilitation and Movement Sciences Department, Rutgers School of Health Professions, Newark, NJ 07107, USA.ORCID 0009-0004-3798-8734
Jigna PatelRehabilitation and Movement Sciences Department, Rutgers School of Health Professions, Newark, NJ 07107, USA.
Qinyin QiuRehabilitation and Movement Sciences Department, Rutgers School of Health Professions, Newark, NJ 07107, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0417-8722
Alma MeriansRehabilitation and Movement Sciences Department, Rutgers School of Health Professions, Newark, NJ 07107, USA.
Sergei AdamovichRehabilitation and Movement Sciences Department, Rutgers School of Health Professions, Newark, NJ 07107, USA.
Gerard FluetRehabilitation and Movement Sciences Department, Rutgers School of Health Professions, Newark, NJ 07107, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gaze and pupil metrics are used to represent higher cognitive processes in a variety of contexts. One growing area of research is the real-time assessment of workload and corresponding effort in gamified or simulated cognitive and motor tasks, which will be reviewed in this paper. While some measurements are consistent across studies, others vary and are likely dependent on the nature of the effort required by the task and the resulting changes in arousal. Pupil diameter is shown to consistently increase with task effort and arousal; however, the valence of arousal must be considered. In many cases, measures of pupil diameter were sensitive to both excessive and insufficient challenge. Overall, it is evident that gaze and pupil metrics are valuable to assess the cognitive state during gamified and simulated tasks, and further research is indicated regarding their use in clinical populations in rehabilitation to inform optimally engaging interventions.

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PupilWorkloadArousalcognitive effortcognitive workloadoculometricspupillometry

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PMID38544022
PMCPMC10975796

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