MRI: Acquisition of Eye-tracker for Research and Education in Cognitive, Developmental, and Psychology

这个奖项颁给。Stephani Foraker， Jill norviltis和Pamela Schuetze-Pizarro将允许纽约州立大学布法罗州立学院（BSC）的心理学系购买Eyelink 1000眼动仪，以提高和扩展其进行程序性研究的能力，并增加本科生的研究培训机会。该仪器跟踪参与者的眼球运动，提供精确毫秒计时和细粒度定位分辨率的几个相关测量，以索引注意力和认知过程。所要求的跟踪器具有几个灵活而强大的软件功能以及设备配置，支持将使用跟踪器的教师和学生的各种广泛需求。Drs。Foraker、Schuetze和Norvilitis将成为该仪器的主要用户，以显著扩展其现有研究项目的深度和广度。三个创新项目将研究注意机制的不同方面。其中一个项目将使用眼球追踪方法来研究工作记忆和语言理解背后的注意过程。福莱克博士还将研究多模态语言的理解（如面对面交流）是否涉及对手势的公开或隐蔽的注意，以及研究整合手势和口语内容的时间过程。第二个项目将调查接触香烟的儿童注意力和自我调节功能的发展。这些儿童在婴儿时期表现出非典型的反应性，但目前尚不清楚产前吸烟是否以及如何影响学龄前儿童的注意力和自我调节能力。一系列测试注意力控制不同组成部分的任务将在纵向设计中将这些高危人群与对照组进行比较。第三个项目将检查多动症儿童和成人中常见的左视野忽视。诺维利蒂斯博士将测试两种解释为什么会出现忽视，并将调查阅读困难的相关解释。使用眼动仪的研究将提供理论重要性和教育和社会影响的结果。这些研究将增加对书面和多模式交流的理解，产前吸烟对学龄前儿童注意力技能的发展影响，以及评估和改善患有多动症的儿童和成人阅读困难的有效方法。眼动仪将为本科生提供高影响力的研究机会，结合个性化教学和使用前沿和专业方法的学生培训。作为纽约州北部的一所城市学院，我们的学生在种族、民族和社会上都是多样化的，心理学系成功地为来自弱势群体和经济弱势背景的学生做好了准备，使他们能够在科学心理学研究领域从事有前途的研究生职业。眼动仪还将被纳入实验课程和课堂演示，增加本科生早期的研究兴趣和接触。

This award to Drs. Stephani Foraker, Jill Norvilitis and Pamela Schuetze-Pizarro will permit the Psychology Department at Buffalo State College, SUNY, (BSC) to purchase an Eyelink 1000 eye-tracker to improve and extend its ability to produce programmatic research and increase the research training opportunities for undergraduate students. The instrument tracks a participant's eye movements, providing several dependent measures of precise millisecond timing and fine-grained location resolution that index attentional and cognitive processes. The requested tracker has several flexible and powerful software features as well as equipment configurations, supporting the varied and wide-ranging needs of the faculty and students who will use the tracker. Drs. Foraker, Schuetze, and Norvilitis will be the major users of the acquired instrument, to significantly extend the depth and breadth of their existing research programs. Three innovative projects will investigate different aspects of attentional mechanisms. One project will use eye-tracking measures to study working memory and attention processes underlying language comprehension. Dr. Foraker will also investigate the novel issue of whether comprehension of multi-modal language (as in face-to-face communication) involves overt or covert attention to hand gestures, as well as examine the time course of integrating gestured and spoken content. A second project will investigate the development of attention and self-regulation functions in cigarette-exposed children. Such children show atypical reactivity as infants, but whether and how prenatal cigarette exposure affects attention and self-regulation in preschoolers is currently unknown. A series of tasks testing different components of attentional control will compare this at-risk population with controls in a longitudinal design. The third project will examine the left visual field neglect typically found in ADHD children and adults. Dr. Norvilitis will test two explanations of why the neglect occurs, and related accounts for reading difficulties will be investigated. Research using the eye-tracker will provide results of theoretical importance and educational and societal impact. The studies will increase understanding of written and multi-modal communication, the developmental repercussions of prenatal cigarette exposure on preschoolers' attention skills, and effective ways to assess and ameliorate reading difficulties in children and adults with ADHD. The eye-tracker will provide high-impact research opportunities for undergraduates, incorporating individualized teaching and training of students using a leading-edge and major methodology. As an urban college in upstate New York, our students are racially, ethnically, and socially diverse, and the Psychology Department successfully prepares students from underrepresented populations and economically disadvantaged backgrounds for promising graduate careers in scientific psychological research. The eye-tracker will also be incorporated in laboratory courses and class demonstrations, increasing research interest and exposure for undergraduates in their early years.