This study examines eye movement behavior using eye-tracking technology. Healthy participants perform three different tasks, including a visual search task, a stop-signal task, and a useful field of view task. Behavioral performance and eye movements are recorded for all tasks.

This study examines eye movement behavior using eye-tracking technology. Healthy participants perform three different tasks, including a visual search task emphasizing distraction, a stop-signal task, and a useful field of view task. Behavioral performance and eye movements are recorded for all tasks.

In this task, participants sit in front of a computer screen with their head in a chinrest to control for distance from the monitor and eye-tracking equipment. For the visual search task, participants will search for a visual target among distractors and make a response regarding its orientation. The target is defined by a contour formed through oriented Gabor patches.

This measure is the average first fixation duration during the visual search task. Possible scores are a minimum of 50 ms with an undeterminable positive number of ms as a maximum. This measure indicates the duration of processing before the first eye movement decision.

This measure is the count the average number of eye movements participants made per trial during the visual search task. Possible scores range from a minimum of 0 to approximately 40 eye movements, given the time available. This measure indicates the amount of active exploration of the display during search.

Stop signal reaction time is a quantitative estimate of how long participants take to successfully inhibit a planned eye movement. Possible scores range from a minimum of 0 ms to a maximum of about 600 ms. Low scores indicate strong inhibitory ability and high scores indicate weak inhibitory ability.

Performance in a thresholding task indicates participants ability to detect a briefly presented target among distractors with 80% accuracy. Contrast of the displays varies until performance meets achieved level. Possible scores range from 0 to 100% contrast. Lower contrast indicates better information accrual, while higher contrast indicates worse.

Performance in a dual task indicates participants ability to spread attention across the visual field. Possible scores range from 0 to 100% accuracy. Higher performance indicates better information accrual, while lower performance indicates worse.

This measure is the average fixation duration across all fixations in a trial during the visual search task. Possible scores range from a minimum of 50 ms to approximately 500 ms. This measure indicates the average duration of processing before a saccadic decision is made.