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Eye Tracking During Visually Situated Language Comprehension: Flexibility and Limitations in Uncovering Visual Context Effects
Published on: November 30, 2018
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Low experimental power makes a crisis in visual attention inevitable, but easy to address
Gregory Francis1, Evelina Thunell2
1https://ror.org/02dqehb95Purdue University, Psychological Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, USA gfrancis@purdue.edu.
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
|November 26, 2025
Abstract:
We suggest that the crisis in visual attention is caused by problems prevalent in many other areas of psychology: low-power experiments and questionable research practices. We demonstrate that many attention experiments use sample sizes that are several orders of magnitude too small and argue that it is unreasonable to expect theoretical clarity based on such unreliable empirical data.

