Table 1. Summary of analysis steps of the eye movement data.
Analysis step | Description | |
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Pre-processing | 1. Filtering | Maximally flat 2nd order low-pass filter without delay and 9-sample wide edge enhancing smoothing kernel |
2. Artefact removal | Removal of samples between 0.10 seconds before and 0.25 seconds after a blink artefact | |
Saccadic detection | 1. Detect approximate saccadic intervals | Samples with acceleration >2.576*SD of acceleration distribution |
2. Merging of saccadic intervals | Intervals closer than 20 ms | |
4. Detect onset and offset of saccade | From highest velocity check consecutive samples in backward and forward direction, onset or offset if 1 of 3 criteria satisfied: 1. Sample to sample direction deviation from main direction (which is the sample-to-sample direction at highest velocity) of >60 degrees 2. Sample to sample directional change between two adjacent samples of >20 degrees per ms of sample duration 3. Velocity of <5 degrees/second |
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5. Minimal saccadic amplitude and duration | Amplitude of >0.15 degrees and duration of >8 ms | |
6. Determine the main saccade | Saccade with the highest peak velocity of a saccadic interval | |
Parameters calculation | Fixation task | Fixation periods: mean and SD of gaze, vergence and velocity. Median and IQR of total velocity. Bivariate contour ellipse area. Linear fit coefficient and standard error of estimate. Number of saccadic intrusions (divided in square wave jerks (SWJ) and saccades) per second. Mean amplitude of saccadic intrusion. Mean inter-SWJ interval. |
Pro-saccadic, express saccadic and repeated pro-saccadic tasks | Centrifugal saccades: peak velocity, peak acceleration, gain, latency, firstpass gain (FPG), area under the curve of the saccadic trajectory (AUC). Versional dysconjugacy index (VDI) of: peak velocity, peak acceleration, FPG and AUC. | |
Anti-saccadic task | Centrifugal saccades: peak velocity, peak acceleration, latency, gain, X error, proportion of errors. Final eye position: gain, X error. | |
Double-step saccadic task | First and second saccade: peak velocity, peak acceleration, latency/intersaccadic interval, amplitude/gain. Final eye position: gain, X error, Y error. Proportion of correct, acceptable, contraversive shifted and late double-step saccades. Proportion of first saccade to second target |