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Workshop vision and goals:
Visual attention plays a fundamental role in many tasks that have important consequences for our daily lives. Two primary tasks are visual search (e.g., identifying signs of cancer in medical images, or weapons in TSA baggage scans) and reading text (e.g., learning inside and outside of the classroom). Eye movements play a critical role in both tasks, but many cognitive neuroscience methods (e.g., electroencephalography; EEG) require research participants to refrain from moving their eyes because doing so produces artifacts in the neural measurements, which make the brain processes of interest harder to study. However, when eye movements are restricted, the inferences made in these neuroscience studies are far removed from the phenomena the investigators intend to study.
New analytic techniques may allow these fields to finally move beyond simplified laboratory paradigms, but this transition necessitates significant technological and analytic advances, which will lead to the codification of a set of “best practices” for these types of studies. With such guidelines in place, researchers will be in a better position to interpret and evaluate the data obtained from such studies, and to integrate theoretical insights across scientific domains.
The goal of this workshop is to convene leading experts from different scientific fields to address the methodological and conceptual challenges of integrating eye tracking and EEG methods. The outcomes of this workshop will be to:
Visual attention plays a fundamental role in many tasks that have important consequences for our daily lives. Two primary tasks are visual search (e.g., identifying signs of cancer in medical images, or weapons in TSA baggage scans) and reading text (e.g., learning inside and outside of the classroom). Eye movements play a critical role in both tasks, but many cognitive neuroscience methods (e.g., electroencephalography; EEG) require research participants to refrain from moving their eyes because doing so produces artifacts in the neural measurements, which make the brain processes of interest harder to study. However, when eye movements are restricted, the inferences made in these neuroscience studies are far removed from the phenomena the investigators intend to study.
New analytic techniques may allow these fields to finally move beyond simplified laboratory paradigms, but this transition necessitates significant technological and analytic advances, which will lead to the codification of a set of “best practices” for these types of studies. With such guidelines in place, researchers will be in a better position to interpret and evaluate the data obtained from such studies, and to integrate theoretical insights across scientific domains.
The goal of this workshop is to convene leading experts from different scientific fields to address the methodological and conceptual challenges of integrating eye tracking and EEG methods. The outcomes of this workshop will be to:
- advance the impact of these fields on the lives of everyday people
- increase participation of diverse researchers in addressing these questions
- improve the resources available for training future scientists in these methods.
