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Effect of aging on post-saccadic oscillations
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posted on 2019-04-04, 09:17 authored by Diako Mardanbegi, Rebecca Killick, Baiqiang Xia, Thom WilcocksonThom Wilcockson, Hans Gellersen, Peter Sawyer, Trevor J. CrawfordRecent research have shown that the eye movement data measured by an eye tracker does not necessarily reflect the exact rotations of the eyeball. For example, post-saccadic eye movements may be more reflecting the relative movements between the pupil and the iris rather than the eyeball oscillations. Since, accurate measurement of eye movements is important in many studies, it is crucial to identify different factors that influence the dynamics of the eye movements measured by an eye tracker. Previous studies have shown that deformation of the internal structure of the iris and size of the pupil directly affect the amplitude of the post-saccadic oscillations that are measured by video-based eye trackers that are pupil-based. In this paper, we look at the effect of aging on post-saccadic oscillations. We recorded eye movements from a group of 43 young and 22 older participants during an abstract and a more natural viewing task. The recording was conducted with a video-based eye tracker using the pupil center and corneal reflection. We anticipated that changes in the muscle strength as an effect of aging might affect, directly or indirectly, the post-saccadic oscillations. Results showed that the size of the post-saccadic oscillations were significantly larger for our older group. The results suggests that aging has to be considered as an important factor when studying the post-saccadic eye movements.
Funding
The work described in this paper is funded by EPSRC project EP/M006255/1 Monitoring Of Dementia using Eye Movements (MODEM).
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
Vision ResearchVolume
143Pages
1 - 8Citation
MARDANBEGI, D. ... et al, 2017. Effect of aging on post-saccadic oscillations. Vision Research, 143, pp.1-8.Publisher
ElsevierVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2017-08-16Publication date
2017-12-21Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Vision Research and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2017.08.006.ISSN
0042-6989Publisher version
Language
- en