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Eye Movement Differences in Japanese Text Reading between Cognitively Healthy Older and Younger Adults

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We analyzed the eye movements of cognitively healthy older adults while reading Japanese text and compared them with those of younger adults. We found that it is essential to match the reading speeds of older and younger adults to accurately compare eye movement parameters during their reading. Cognitively healthy older adults had longer fixation durations, fewer fixations, and fewer extra fixations than younger adults. Meanwhile, cognitively healthy older adults had a length of forward saccades comparable to that of younger adults. These results suggest that the reduced efficiency due to a longer fixation duration is compensated for by fewer fixations in cognitively healthy older adults who read at the same speed as younger adults.

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UbiComp/ISWC '23 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing
October 2023
822 pages
ISBN:9798400702006
DOI:10.1145/3594739
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  1. Japanese text
  2. cognitively healthy older adults
  3. eye movements
  4. mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
  5. reading

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