Archive for February, 2012

The t-test is used for comparing the means of two samples. When the samples are paired, you do a paired t-test, when they are not, you do an independent samples t-test. Here I compare the results of the two tests repeatedly applied to the same data set. Which one comes out significant, and what does… »

At today’s eye tracking seminar, we had a fierce and in-depth discussion about how papers in the eye movement field should be written to go through the review process, become published and make an impact. The senior researchers in the group were very kind to exemplify with their own experiences of writing up papers and… »

The Humanities Lab has become a partner in an AHRC Skills development scheme on Multilingualism (Skills development for language research and teaching in a multilingual world), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK (main applicants Drs Seyfeddinipur, Lüpke, Iwasaki; partners Gullberg, Lund and Deuchar, Bangor). The enterprise connects the Humanities Lab to the… »

At todays ET-seminar, Damon Tutunjian presented an upcoming experiment for using eye-tracking to study implicit agent activation in adjectival vs. verbal passives. Understanding the purpose of this study requires an example, and Damon gave us the following: (1) a. The new technology was very efficient to get ahead of the competitors. b. The new technology was… »

At today’s ET-seminar, we discussed how to detect cognitive states such as ‘search’, ‘evaluation’ and ‘decision’ in eye-movement data. Although Kerstin examines decisions in supermarkets, the underlying question about cognitive processes is the same for all search tasks: radiology, psycholinguistics, visual search etc: it is clear that even if we see changes in eye movement… »