ET Lab Recent Projects

Cognitive Development Lab

  • Vladimir Sloutsky and Anna Fisher are investigating the eye movement patterns associated with the encoding of item-specific information and category-specific information in children and adults.
  • Click here for a 20-second clip in which a 7-year-old views pictures for a later memory task

Orthodontics Section of the College of Dentistry

  • Allen Firestone and Lynnsay Leesburg are investigating the eye movement patterns that people make when they view faces.

Physics Education Research Group

  • This research group is collecting eye movement data to understand how students in introductory physics classes interact with computer-based virtual experiments that allow them to test hypotheses about physics.
  • Demaree, D., Stonebraker, S., Zhao, W., & Bao, L. (2005, April). Learning from where students look while observing simulated physical phenomena. Poster presented at the Ohio Section of the American Physical Society, Dayton, Ohio. [.ppt]

Psycholinguistics Lab

  • Xu Lei and Shari Speer are using eye movement data to investigate the resolution of tone sandhi ambiguities in spoken Mandarin.
  • Kiwako Ito and Shari Speer are using eye tracking to investigate the comprehension of given and new information in spoken English and Japanese.
  • Click here to watch a 23-second clip with audio in which someone relies on a contrastive pitch accent and visual context to (mis)interpret a command.

RASCL: Attitude and Social Cognitions Lab

  • Russ Fazio and Chris Jones are collecting eye movement data to investigate the classical conditioning of attitudes and the mechanism through which it occurs.
  • Click Here to watch a 16-second clip in which someone is watching for particular images to appear.

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