Day 2 (7th February- Friday)

Session 1- Eye Movement and Schizophrenia [Lecture] (9:00-10:00AM)

​​Summary

The talk by Dr Harsh focused on the overview of schizophrenia and its cognitive impairments and the role of eye tracking in its diagnosis. He began with the question “Why do we need to move our eyes at all?” and discussed eye anatomy and eye movements, focusing on saccadic eye movement in schizophrenia. He explained saccadic paradigms primarily used such as gap saccade, anti-saccade, and prosaccade paradigms referencing relevant studies. He also explained key concepts such as smooth pursuit task and RMS Error. The talk concluded with a discussion on the therapeutic potential of oculomotor studies in cognitive rehabilitation and the early detection of cognitive traits. This session provided workshop participants with valuable insights into the clinical applications of eye-tracking.​

Session 2- Eye Tracking in Reading and Language Research [Talk] (10:00AM-11:00AM)

​​Summary

Dr Prakash focused on how eye tracking can be used in linguistic research. His talk was very interactive as he continued it with a discussion on what elements of language can be studied using eye tracking, the factors that may affect such experiments, the study of reading comprehension using eye tracking, etc. He explained various paradigms used in eye-tracking research to study language and framing of research questions. ​

Session 3- Hands-on experience with EyeLink 1000 Plus & Group Discussions (11:00AM-1:00PM)

​​Summary

This session had two parts running in parallel at two different venues. NCL was handling two groups at two times – small group sessions in NCL and discussion session at Assembly. Hall.
At NeuroCognition Laboratory, participants came in groups and got hands-on experience with the EyeLink 1000 Plus system. Groups 3 member or a 4 member group participated in following activity- calibrate -validate,  Collect the data, verify the data. They took turn in being subject and experiment and experienced the various actions experimenter is involved in namely data acquisition and quality of data acquired. If there were any queries related to data acquisition, those were briefly discussed.
At the assembly hall, each group came up with their research question. With the help of mentors facilitating the group discussion, each group came up with an experiment design for their research question. Through this session, participants got an opportunity to convert their research idea into an eye-tracking experiment and understand various factors that must be considered while designing. Discussion activity --- involved discussing specific research question  each group was assigned a mentor to assess the pros and cons of the experiment design. 

Session 4- Eye Tracking Applications in Forensic Psychology [Talk] (2:30PM-3:00PM)

​​Summary

Mr Swastik Sahoo discussed the applications of eye-tracking method in Forensic Psychology research. He introduced the four major eye movements measures such as fixation, dwell time, and pupil dilation commonly studied in forensic psychology research. He referred to relevant studies to illustrate different areas of forensic psychology such attention, memory, deception detection where these eye movement measures provide meaningful insights. He also shared his experience and learnings from working on his own experiment using eye tracking method for his PhD thesis. ​​

Session 5- Group Presentations (3:00PM-5:00PM)

​​Summary

During the last hour of the session, the workshop participants worked in groups of 3-4 to design an experiment based on the concepts they had learned. Each group presented their experiment before all the participants. They received feedback and valuable suggestions on improving the efficiency of their experiment design.​