Using eye-tracking to predict children's success or failure on analogy tasks
Category
Conference Proceedings
Authors
French, R.M., Thibaut, J.P.
Year
2014
Title
Using eye-tracking to predict children's success or failure on analogy tasks
Journal / book / conference
Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society
Abstract
We use eye-tracking data, analyzed by a neural network and by Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), to study the temporal dynamics of children's analogy making. We determine how well the number of item-to-item saccades while solving an analogy problem predicts whether or not a child will correctly answer the problem. For the A:B::C:D visual analogy problems, by the first third of the trial we can tell with 64% accuracy whether or not the problem will be answered correctly. Two-thirds of way through the trial, we can predict with 82% accuracy the answer that will be given. By looking only at the final third of the trial, we can predict with up to 90% accuracy what the child will do. Average gaze times at the Target and Distractor items have the same predictive power as the item-to-item saccade information.
Pages
2222-2227
Keywords
Analogical reasoning; development; eye-tracking; strategies, prediction in analogy making