Time Stand Still: Effects of Temporal Window Selection on Eye Tracking Analysis.

ABSTRACT: The number of possible approaches to conducting and analyzing a research study-often referred to as researcher degrees of freedom-has been increasingly under scrutiny as a challenge to the reproducibility of experimental results. Here we focus on the specific instance of time window selection for time series data. As an example, we use data from a visual world eye tracking paradigm in which participants heard a word and were instructed to click on one of four pictures corresponding to the target (e.g., "Click on the hat"). We examined statistical models for a range of start times following the beginning of the carrier phrase, and for each start time a range of window lengths, resulting in 8281 unique time windows. For each time window we ran the same logistic linear mixed effects model, in

SUBMITTER: Peelle JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8752058 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature