Evaluating the use of eye tracking tasks as language‐ and culturally‐neutral assessments of cognition in a multi‐ethnic cohort of older adults
Rachel Yep, Alexander J Nyman, Georgia Gopinath, Madeline Wood Alexander, Tulip Marawi, Silina Z Boshmaf, Donald C Brien, Brian C Coe, Christopher B Pople, Douglas P Munoz, Jennifer D Ryan, Sandra E Black, Maged Goubran, Jennifer S Rabin · 2025
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Dementia tests spoken in one language can misjudge people raised in another, so Rachel Yep and fifteen co-authors tried tests that need no words at all. Their 2025 study enrolled 54 unimpaired older adults in a Canadian multi-ethnic aging cohort, average age about 69, most of them women.
Each volunteer took standard paper-and-pencil cognitive tests plus two eye-tracking tasks. One asks the eyes to obey or resist a cue, probing executive control. The other watches where the eyes linger, probing visual memory. The team compared scores between white participants and those from underrepresented ethnic groups. If eye movements grade cognition as fairly across cultures as the standard battery grades it within one, clinics gain a tool that travels. The authors frame the study as a fairness check on a promising workaround.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Rachel Yep, Alexander J Nyman, Georgia Gopinath, Madeline Wood Alexander, Tulip Marawi, Silina Z Boshmaf, Donald C Brien, Brian C Coe, Christopher B Pople, Douglas P Munoz, Jennifer D Ryan, Sandra E Black, Maged Goubran, Jennifer S Rabin |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |