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Alayna Shoenfelt1, Derek M Isaacowitz2, Natalie C Ebner3
1Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
|December 10, 2025
Summary
Advanced eye tracking methods offer new insights into aging cognition. These techniques, including at-home and mobile eye tracking, help understand attention and cognitive changes in older adults.
Area of Science:
- Gerontology
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Ophthalmology
Background:
- The aging population (65+) is rapidly expanding.
- Standard eye tracking has limitations in studying dynamic cognitive processes in older adults.
- Emerging eye-tracking technologies show potential for naturalistic cognitive assessment.
Purpose of the Study:
- To outline challenges, best practices, and future directions for eye-tracking methodology in older adults.
- To explore the utility of advanced eye-tracking methods (at-home, mobile, MRI-simultaneous) for studying aging cognition.
- To provide empirical data on eye-tracking quality across different environments.
Main Methods:
- Review of eye-tracking methodologies for aging research.
- Implementation of at-home, mobile, and simultaneous MRI eye tracking in aging populations.
- Comparative analysis of eye-tracking data quality in lab vs. MRI settings for young and older adults.
Main Results:
- Advanced eye-tracking methods provide richer data on dynamic attentional and cognitive processes in aging.
- Simultaneous MRI-eye tracking offers insights into brain-behavior links but involves data quality trade-offs.
- Age-tailored study designs and data analysis are crucial for reliable results.
Conclusions:
- Novel eye-tracking applications are essential for comprehensive, real-life capture of age-related cognitive changes.
- Future research should leverage these advanced techniques to enhance understanding of cognitive aging.
- Optimizing methodology is key to unlocking the full potential of eye tracking in gerontology.
Keywords:
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