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“We have found the Tobii Eye Tracker to be easy to use with infants and
young children and to have sufficient spatial and temporal resolution to
Cognitive Sciences provide new insights about spoken word recognition.”
Richard Aslin, Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science,
University of Rochester
The results
Researchers calculated the proportion of
fixations to the novel object at each time point
A toddler sitting on his mom’s lap watches the during the critical phase of the fluent and
disfluency study movie on the Tobii screen. disfluent trials using Matlab.
Timecourse plots (Figures 1 and 2) suggest
Within each trial, one known object (e.g., that children were biased to interpret the
shoe) and one novel object (e.g., mog) were disfluency as signaling that the upcoming
presented three times in succession. During word would refer to the novel and previously
the first two presentations, children heard an unmentioned object.
utterance referring to the known object. To test that hypothesis, researchers com-
During the critical third presentation, the pared average total looking time to the novel
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Why Tobii?
Another example of a display, this one “Our subjects here were toddlers, and
containing a ball (familiar) and a gorp (novel). toddlers are generally very active. Time is a
huge constraint on how much data we can
collect from subjects at this age. The Tobii
In many domains, children may possess
enabled us to get more data from these
knowledge before they have either the
children by greatly reducing the amount of
linguistic competence or the motor skills
time needed to calibrate each child.”
required to demonstrate it. Eye Tracking has
Celeste Kidd, Graduate Student Research-
the potential to reveal that a child possesses
er, Brain & Cognitive Sciences,
competence beyond what she can demon-
University of Rochester
strate in other performance-oriented
experimental tasks.
About Rochester Babylab
Since collecting eye movement data using
The Rochester Baby Lab studies how young
eye-tracking was much faster than other
infants and children perceive visual and
comparable methods (such as hand-coding
auditory stimuli, how they learn about these
recorded videos of children’s eye move-
stimuli, and what brain mechanisms are
ments offline), researchers were able to
involved in these abilities. To find out more
perform their analyses and ascertain results
about the lab, visit:
sooner.
www.babylab.bcs.rochester.edu