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Table 1 Outcome measures associated with the eye-tracking data

From: Eye movements and eating disorders: protocol for an exploratory experimental study examining the relationship in young-adult women with subclinical symptomatology

Task

Outcomes

Fixation

Rate of SWJs. Threshold for SWJ detection included saccade pairs (an initial saccade that moves the fovea away from the cross fixation, followed by a second saccade in the opposite direction to refoveate the fixation) within 200 ms, with amplitudes between 0.1° and 5°

Prosaccade

Gain, latency, and peak velocity of correct saccades

Errors

Anticipation rate making a saccade during the fixation period, prior to the presentation of the target dot or within 80 ms of its presentation

Prosaccade error saccade in the opposite direction of the peripheral stimulus

Antisaccade

Gain, latency, and peak velocity of correct saccades

Errors

Corrected error rate looking at the target, then looking at the correct location at the mirror image of the target

Latency of the correction saccade how long it took to make a saccade in the correct direction following the incorrect saccade

Uncorrected error rate looking at, instead of away from, the target

Anticipation rate making a saccade during the fixation period, prior to the presentation of the target dot or within 80 ms of its presentation

Memory-guided saccade

Gain, latency, and peak velocity of correct saccades

Errors

Inhibitory errors Looking at the dot when it was presented or making a saccade before the response period

Directional errors Looking in the wrong direction to where the stimulus had been presented during the response time

  1. Practice trials are aimed to acquaint the participant with the experimental paradigms and will not be statistically analyzed. In the saccade tasks, saccades smaller than 2° will not be analyzed. The error rate for each participant will be calculated as the proportion of erroneous trials to all valid trials. The gain of the first saccade will be calculated as a ratio of the first saccade amplitude divided by the desired saccade amplitude (e.g., 8° for Prosaccade task). Latency of the first saccade is defined as the latency from appearance of the target to the start of the saccade