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This study introduces a new method for comparing saccadic eye movement sequences by adapting bioinformatics algorithms. The approach enhances the analysis of eye movement patterns, offering benefits over existing techniques.

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Area of Science:

Ophthalmology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Bioinformatics

Background:

Comparing saccadic eye movement sequences is crucial for understanding visual attention and cognitive processes.
Existing methods for saccade sequence comparison have limitations in capturing complex spatial and temporal information.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a novel approach for comparing saccadic eye movement sequences.
To adapt the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm from bioinformatics for analyzing eye movement data.
To provide a more robust and informative method for saccade sequence comparison.

Main Methods:

Saccade sequences are spatially and temporally binned and recoded into letter sequences.
A substitution matrix is used to score letter pair similarities, incorporating fixation location, time, and order.
The Needleman-Wunsch algorithm is applied to maximize similarity scores between sequences.
The substitution matrix can encode various dimensions, such as distance, perceptual, or semantic space.

Main Results:

The proposed method demonstrates benefits over existing techniques using synthetic and behavioral data.
The approach effectively retains fixation location, time, and order information in saccade sequences.
The substitution matrix allows for flexible encoding of spatial and other relevant relationships between fixations.

Conclusions:

The novel approach offers a powerful new tool for analyzing saccadic eye movement sequences.
This method provides a more nuanced comparison of eye movement patterns by leveraging bioinformatics principles.
The freely available ScanMatch toolbox facilitates the application of this method in research.