Measuring pupil size with eye tracking

Speakers

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  Prof. Dr. Mariska Kret

  Professor Cognitive Psychology, Leiden University

  Mariska Kret is a full professor of comparative psychology and affective neuroscience at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Prior to this appointment she was a guest staff member at Caltech and assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. She holds a PhD in neuropsychology from Tilburg University and completed a postdoc at Kyoto University. Her research focuses on emotions, comparative cognition, and social neuroscience.

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  Anouschka van Dijk

  PhD. candidate, Leiden University

  Anouschka van Dijk is a PhD student supervised by Prof. Kret. In her research she combines eye tracking and psychological methods in order to better understand emotion processing difficulties in people with autism and social anxiety disorder. She enjoys involving children in academia and has performed in several theatre shows to spike academic interest in the new generation.

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  Prof. Dr. Sylvain Sirois

  Professor, Psychology Department, University of Quebec, Trois-Rivières

  Sylvain is a professor of psychology at Université du Québec. From a background in neural network models of learning and development, he ended up studying habituation and, eventually, actual infants. Eye tracking had become the gold standard in the field but, strangely, pupil dilation remained a distant memory of the late 1960s (unlike in other areas of psychology). With an eye tracker and some useful statistical tools, he became an advocate for a renewed interest in pupillometry in infant research.

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  Dr. Marisa Biondi

  Senior Research Scientist and Funding and Support Manager, Tobii

  Dr. Biondi has a Ph.D. in Psychological & Brain Sciences from Texas A&M University and used fNIRS and eye tracking to study the functional organization of the developing human brain.