Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Related Concept Videos

Fixation and Sectioning

Fixation and Sectioning

Two basic types of preparation are used to visualize specimens with a light microscope: wet mounts and fixed specimens.
The simplest type of preparation is the wet mount, in which the specimen is placed in a drop of liquid on the slide. A liquid specimen can be directly deposited on the slide using a dropper. Solid specimens, such as skin scraping, can be placed on the slide before adding a drop of liquid to prepare the wet mount. Sometimes the liquid is simply water, but stains are often added...

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

Bayesian Dynamical Modeling of Fixational Eye Movements.

Biological cybernetics·2025

Same author

Toward Dynamical Modeling of Infants' Looking Times.

Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science·2025

Same author

Distinctive pupil and microsaccade-rate signatures in self-recognition.

Journal of vision·2025

Same author

Mental effort during mindless reading? Pupil fluctuations indicate internal processing during levels of inattention.

Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition·2024

Same author

Exploring the impact of nonverbal social behavior on learning outcomes in instructional video design.

Scientific reports·2024

Same author

Potsdam data set of eye movement on natural scenes (DAEMONS).

Frontiers in psychology·2024

Same journal

Analysis of human visual experience data.

Journal of vision·2026

Same journal

Pyramid-based Bayesian modeling for high-resolution behavioral analysis.

Journal of vision·2026

Same journal

Sensation without perception: The white whale effect and perceptual blindness in autonomous vehicles.

Journal of vision·2026

Same journal

Gaze behavior during closed-captioned movie viewing adapts to absent audio through more frequent switching between text and scene.

Journal of vision·2026

Same journal

In pursuit of saccade awareness: Limited volitional control and minimal conscious access to catch-up saccades during smooth pursuit eye movements.

Journal of vision·2026

Same journal

Dissociable effects of element-lifetime and stimulus-duration on local and global motion processing: An equivalent noise study.

Journal of vision·2026

See all related articles

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: May 7, 2026

Using Eye Movements Recorded in the Visual World Paradigm to Explore the Online Processing of Spoken Language

Using Eye Movements Recorded in the Visual World Paradigm to Explore the Online Processing of Spoken Language

Published on: October 13, 2018

Modeling fixation locations using spatial point processes.

Simon Barthelmé¹, Hans Trukenbrod, Ralf Engbert

¹Psychology, University of Geneva, Genève, Switzerland.

Journal of Vision

|October 3, 2013

Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

Analyzing eye movements involves understanding fixation locations. Spatial statistics, particularly point processes, offers a quantitative framework to analyze fixation data and its relation to image properties, enhancing interpretation and analysis scope.

Keywords:

eye movements fixation locations modeling point process saliency spatial statistics

More Related Videos

Three-Dimensional Mapping of the Rotation of Interactive Virtual Objects with Eye-Tracking Data

Three-Dimensional Mapping of the Rotation of Interactive Virtual Objects with Eye-Tracking Data

Published on: October 18, 2024

Topographical Estimation of Visual Population Receptive Fields by fMRI

Topographical Estimation of Visual Population Receptive Fields by fMRI

Published on: February 3, 2015

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: May 7, 2026

Using Eye Movements Recorded in the Visual World Paradigm to Explore the Online Processing of Spoken Language

Using Eye Movements Recorded in the Visual World Paradigm to Explore the Online Processing of Spoken Language

Published on: October 13, 2018

Three-Dimensional Mapping of the Rotation of Interactive Virtual Objects with Eye-Tracking Data

Three-Dimensional Mapping of the Rotation of Interactive Virtual Objects with Eye-Tracking Data

Published on: October 18, 2024

Topographical Estimation of Visual Population Receptive Fields by fMRI

Topographical Estimation of Visual Population Receptive Fields by fMRI

Published on: February 3, 2015

Area of Science:

Cognitive Science
Computer Vision
Spatial Statistics

Background:

Eye movement analysis is crucial for understanding visual attention.
Fixation locations are typically treated as spatial data.
Existing methods for analyzing fixation data have limitations.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce spatial statistics and point processes for eye movement analysis.
To demonstrate how point processes can quantify the relationship between image properties and fixation locations.
To extend the analytical capabilities for interpreting eye movement data.

Main Methods:

Applying spatial statistics concepts, focusing on spatial Poisson processes.
Modeling fixation locations as point processes.
Comparing point process analysis with existing methods in the literature.

Main Results:

Point processes provide a quantitative framework for analyzing fixation locations.
This approach effectively relates image features to where subjects fixate.
The predictability of image features for fixations can vary across different images.

Conclusions:

Viewing fixation locations through the lens of point processes significantly enhances data analysis.
This framework turns qualitative questions about visual attention into quantitative ones.
The application of point processes broadens the scope and clarifies the interpretation of eye movement research.