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A comparison of post-saccadic oscillations in European-born and China-born British university undergraduates

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posted on 2020-02-04, 14:21 authored by Diako Mardanbegi, Thom WilcocksonThom Wilcockson, Rebecca Killick, Baiqiang Xia, Hans Gellersen, Peter Sawyer, Trevor J. Crawford
Previous research has revealed that people from different genetic, racial, biological, and/or cultural backgrounds may display fundamental differences in eye-tracking behavior. These differences may have a cognitive origin or they may be at a lower level within the neurophysiology of the oculomotor network, or they may be related to environment factors. In this paper we investigated one of the physiological aspects of eye movements known as post-saccadic oscillations and we show that this type of eye movement is very different between two different populations. We compared the post-saccadic oscillations recorded by a video-based eye tracker between two groups of participants: European-born and Chinese-born British students. We recorded eye movements from a group of 42 Caucasians defined as White British or White Europeans and 52 Chinese-born participants all with ages ranging from 18 to 36 during a prosaccade task. The post-saccadic oscillations were extracted from the gaze data which was compared between the two groups in terms of their first overshoot and undershoot. The results revealed that the shape of the post-saccadic oscillations varied significantly between the two groups which may indicate a difference in a multitude of genetic, cultural, physiologic, anatomical or environmental factors. We further show that the differences in the post-saccadic oscillations could influence the oculomotor characteristics such as saccade duration. We conclude that genetic, racial, biological, and/or cultural differences can affect the morphology of the eye movement data recorded and should be considered when studying eye movements and oculomotor fixation and saccadic behaviors.

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EPSRC project EP/M006255/1 307 Monitoring Of Dementia using Eye Movements (MODEM)

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

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PLoS ONE

Volume

15

Issue

2

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PLoS

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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© The Authors

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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by PLoS under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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2020-02-02

Publication date

2020-02-25

Copyright date

2020

eISSN

1932-6203

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Thom Wilcockson . Deposit date: 4 February 2020

Article number

e0229177

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