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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Neuroscience
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

  • Ongoing thoughts are central to human experience and influence mood, well-being, and productivity.
  • Previous research linked eye movements to specific thought dimensions (e.g., task-relatedness) in experimental settings.
  • Limited understanding exists on classifying diverse thought dimensions via oculomotor activity during naturalistic activities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine if various thought dimensions can be classified using oculomotor activity during naturalistic tasks.
  • To assess the efficacy of machine learning models in predicting thought dimensions from eye movement data.
  • To explore the potential for real-time prediction of ongoing thoughts in ecologically valid contexts.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized thought sampling, eye tracking, and machine learning across seven participants over multi-day, self-selected computer tasks.
  • Collected 1715 thought probes from 63 hours of recordings.
  • Employed a random forest (RF) classifier with particle swarm optimization (PSO) for feature selection, using fixation and saccade data.

Main Results:

  • Achieved above-chance classification performance for all nine assessed thought dimensions (task-relatedness, freely moving, stickiness, goal-directedness, internal-external orientation, self-orientation, others orientation, visual modality, and auditory modality).
  • Mean Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) values ranged from 0.25 to 0.54.
  • PSO-based feature selection improved RF classifier performance compared to using all features.

Conclusions:

  • Machine learning combined with eye movement measures can classify multiple dimensions of naturalistic ongoing thoughts.
  • This approach demonstrates potential for real-time prediction of cognitive states in real-world settings.
  • Oculomotor activity provides valuable insights into the complex stream of human consciousness.