A more eyes-focused scanning pattern and higher eye movement consistency are each correlated with better face recognition performance¶

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q3 i? A more eyes-focused pattern correlates with better d′ and lower false alarm rate; lower C3 entropy correlates with better d′, lower false alarm rate, and shorter RT; neither correlates with hit rate. → Zheng 2026

Evidence¶

Zheng 2026¶

Zheng, Y., Lo, T. W., Lau, E. Y., Eskes, G., Hui, L. L., & Hsiao, J. H. (2026). The Role of Eye Movement Consistency in Aging-Related Decline in Face Recognition. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-026-00437-3

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Pearson correlation analyses in the 301-participant study. The article also reports the eyes-focused pattern correlated with better d′ (r(297) = .146, p = .012) and lower false alarm rate (r(297) = -.147, p = .011), but not recognition RT or hit rate.

"higher eye movement consistency, as reflected in lower C3 entropy, was correlated with better recognition d′ (r(297) = -.199, p < .001, padjusted = .004), lower false alarm rate (r(297) = .211, p < .001, padjusted = .002), shorter RT (r(297) = .175, p = .002, padjusted = .019)"

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