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Analyzing Eye-Voice Coordination in Rapid Automatized Naming
Abstract
Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) is a powerful tool for predicting future reading skill. A person's ability to quickly name symbols as they scan a table is related to higher-level reading proficiency in adults and is predictive of future literacy gains in children. However, noticeable differences are present in the strategies or patterns within groups having similar task completion times. Thus, a further stratification of RAN dynamics may lead to better characterization and later intervention to support reading skill acquisition. In this work, we analyze the dynamics of the eyes, voice, and the coordination between the two during performance. It is shown that fast performers are more similar to each other than to slow performers in their patterns, but not vice versa. Further insights are provided about the patterns of more proficient subjects. For instance, fast performers tended to exhibit smoother behavior contours, suggesting a more stable perception-production process.
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‘Objects’ prompt and sample eye-tracking. Eyetracking is visualized as red circles with diameter representative offixation duration, and by connecting lines representing saccades between fixations.
‘Objects’ prompt and sample eye-tracking. Eyetracking is visualized as red circles with diameter representative offixation duration, and by connecting lines representing saccades between fixations.
Example eye-voice trace with eye fixations in green and vocal productions in blue for each word.
Example eye-voice trace with eye fixations in green and vocal productions in blue for each word.
Keywords
Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) | reading strategies | eye-tracking | multi-modal | production-perception
Publication Date
2013/08/25
Conference
Interspeech
Interspeech 2013
DOI
10.21437/Interspeech.2013-564
Publisher
ISCA