Acquisition of an Eye Movement Tracking System for Research on Cognition, Memory and Affect

获取用于认知、记忆和情感研究的眼动跟踪系统

• 批准号: 0320994
• 负责人: Jesse Whitlow
• 金额: $ 3.22万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-01 至 2004-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0320994&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; Eye; Movement; Tracking; System

Funding from a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation award will allow faculty on the Camden campus of Rutgers University to create a laboratory facility that uses eye tracking to provide a non-invasive, real-time measure of what people are looking at and how much the object of their gaze interests them. Because vision is the sense that dominates information processing for most people, monitoring the focus and duration of their eye fixations (and pupillary diameter during each fixation) while people examine meaningful scenes provides a powerful indicator of conscious and nonconscious attention and thought. Because it does not involve intrusive procedures, eye tracking can be used with a broad spectrum of subject populations. Moreover, advances in technology now make eye tracking a feasible measure in applications that extend well beyond traditional uses of this methodology. Thus, this facility will support research in several new directions by faculty in psychology and criminal justice at Rutgers-Camden.The eye tracking laboratory at Rutgers-Camden will allow a variety of researchers from different disciplines to evaluate the role of visual attention in the context of investigations of human causal reasoning, the development of memory (especially "false memory") in children and adults, evaluations of alternative learning strategies, like "accelerated learning", and the development of accurate measures of recidivism among sex offenders. This facility will also strengthen existing collaborations among faculty in psychology, criminal justice, and biology on projects that combine cognitive neuroscience with applied problems in clinical and forensic psychology.Dr. Whitlow and his colleagues will use the funds to purchase a state-of-the-art eye tracking system that provides accurate monitoring of eye movements and pupillary diameter without requiring onerous head restraints. They will create a dedicated laboratory space for collecting eye tracking data and for training both undergraduate and graduate students in using the technology. They will also provide demonstrations of the technology to pre-college students in various outreach activities.This project will have important benefits for both teaching and research. It will be the only research-quality eye tracking system in an educational setting in southern New Jersey, and it will be used by two departments that account for more than 30% of the baccalaureates awarded at Rutgers-Camden. With respect to teaching, the facility will support training undergraduate and graduate students in the use of a major research methodology. It will also support the long-standing science education outreach activities of Dr. Whitlow and his colleagues, which are designed to interest high school students, especially urban, minority youth, in pursuing science careers. With respect to research, the facility will provide a unique capability for investigating new approaches to understanding how people process and use information in causal reasoning, to exploring how visual information is used in forming long-term memories, and for developing improved assessment techniques in forensic psychology.

美国国家科学基金会重大研究仪器奖的资助将使罗格斯大学卡姆登校区的教师能够创建一个实验室设施，利用眼球追踪技术来非侵入性地实时测量人们正在看什么以及他们对注视的物体感兴趣的程度。 因为视觉是大多数人信息处理的主导感觉，所以当人们检查有意义的场景时，监测他们眼睛注视的焦点和持续时间（以及每次注视期间的瞳孔直径）可以提供有意识和无意识注意力和思维的有力指标。 由于眼球追踪不涉及侵入性程序，因此可用于广泛的受试者群体。 此外，技术的进步现在使眼动追踪成为一种可行的测量方法，其应用范围远远超出了该方法的传统用途。 因此，该设施将支持罗格斯-卡姆登大学心理学和刑事司法教师在几个新方向上的研究。罗格斯-卡姆登大学的眼动追踪实验室将允许来自不同学科的各种研究人员评估视觉注意力在人类因果推理研究、儿童和成人记忆发展（尤其是“错误记忆”）、评估替代学习策略（如“加速学习”）和 制定性犯罪者累犯的准确衡量标准。 该设施还将加强心理学、刑事司法和生物学教师之间现有的合作，开展将认知神经科学与临床和法医心理学应用问题相结合的项目。惠特洛和他的同事将利用这笔资金购买最先进的眼球追踪系统，该系统可以准确监测眼球运动和瞳孔直径，而无需繁重的头枕。 他们将创建一个专门的实验室空间，用于收集眼球追踪数据并培训本科生和研究生使用该技术。他们还将在各种外展活动中向大学预科学生展示该技术。该项目将对教学和研究都有重要的好处。 这将是新泽西州南部教育环境中唯一的研究质量眼动追踪系统，并将由占罗格斯-卡姆登分校 30% 以上的学士学位授予量的两个院系使用。 在教学方面，该设施将支持培训本科生和研究生使用主要研究方法。 它还将支持惠特洛博士及其同事长期开展的科学教育外展活动，这些活动旨在激发高中生，特别是城市少数族裔青年追求科学事业的兴趣。 在研究方面，该设施将提供独特的能力，用于研究新方法来理解人们如何在因果推理中处理和使用信息，探索如何使用视觉信息来形成长期记忆，以及开发改进的法医心理学评估技术。