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ArticleACM transactions on applied perception2025

Eye Tracking in Aging: Challenges, Best Practices, and Novel Frontiers.

Alayna Shoenfelt, Derek M Isaacowitz, Natalie C Ebner

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Alayna ShoenfeltDepartment of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.ORCID 0009-0000-6437-4341
Derek M IsaacowitzDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6187-4401
Natalie C EbnerDepartment of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA and Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2705-7520

Funding

Research Training in Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Cognition in Aging, MCI, and Alzheimer's DiseaseT32AG020499 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI MARSISKE, MICHAEL, SMITH, GLENN E. · 2003 to 2024
$3.7M
Characterizing and Modulating Neurocognitive Processes of Learning to Trust and Distrust in Aging (Diversity Supplement)R01AG072658 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI Natalie C Ebner, Nichole Lighthall · 2022 to 2026
$3.6M
Uncovering and Surveilling Financial Deception Risk in Aging (Diversity Supplement to 1R01AG057764-01A1)R01AG057764 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI EBNER, NATALIE C, SPRENG, ROBERT NATHAN · 2018 to 2022
$2.5M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG057764NIA NIH HHS R01 AG072658NIA NIH HHS T32 AG020499
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adults aged 65 and older are the fastest growing population demographic. Standard, stationary eye tracking has been used to test for age differences in attention and cognition toward understanding decline trajectories and identifying ways to enhance functioning into late life. More recently, advanced methods of at-home eye tracking, mobile eye tracking, and simultaneous Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) eye tracking have suggested promise for insight into more dynamic and naturalistic processes of visual attentional and cognitive processing as well as their brain correlates in aging. Here, we outline challenges, best practices, and novel frontiers in the use of eye-tracking methodology among older adults. We cover considerations pertaining to optimized age-tailored study designs and procedures, eye-tracker setup as well as data quality and analysis. Throughout, we reflect on our experiences conducting novel experiments via at-home and mobile eye tracking as well as simultaneous MRI-eye tracking in aging populations. We also present empirical data comparing the quality of eye tracking in the behavioral lab vs. the MRI environment among both young and older adults, in support of simultaneous MRI-eye tracking informing brain-behavior links in aging, while acknowledging tradeoffs in data quality of this combined methodology. We propose for future research to leverage these novel, advanced eye-tracking applications for a more comprehensive and real-life capture of attentional and cognitive changes with age.

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At-home eye trackingdata qualitymobile eye trackingolder adultssimultaneous MRI-eye tracking

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PMID41368321
PMCPMC12685010

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