In adults, face recognition performance is predicted by eye movement pattern, with eye movement consistency adding no additional variance¶

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q3 i? Reanalysis of two prior adult datasets showed pattern predicted recognition while adding entropy did not significantly explain additional variance. → Hsiao 2022

Evidence¶

Hsiao 2022¶

Hsiao, J. H., An, J., Hui, V. K. S., Zheng, Y. & Chan, A. B. (2022). Understanding the role of eye movement consistency in face recognition and autism through integrating deep neural networks and hidden Markov models. npj Science of Learning 7:28. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-022-00139-6

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Multiple regression reanalysis of data from Chuk et al. (adults): "recognition performance was best predicted by eye movement pattern" (R2 = 21.8%); entropy added no significant variance (ΔR2 = 0.002). Using Chan et al. data, pattern correlated with performance (r = −0.25) but consistency did not.

"recognition performance was best predicted by eye movement pattern, R2 = 21.8%, p = 0.001, and adding consistency did not significantly account for additional variance, ΔR2 = 0.002, p = 0.726"

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