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Abstract
The focus of this investigation was to examine the visual attention patterns of adults with aphasia on task-engaged contextualized images in which a human figure was engaged with the context of the image and camera-engaged contextualized images in which a human figure was looking forward toward the camera. Analysis revealed that adults with aphasia tend to fixate rapidly and frequently on human figures in contextualized images regardless of the type of engagement in the image. In addition, they responded to engagement cues when viewing task-engaged contextualized images by fixating more frequently and more rapidly on the object area of interest for these images than for camera-engaged contextualized images.
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Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank the participants and the staff at Quality Living, Inc., Omaha Nebraska.
Declaration of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the article.
This project was supported in part by the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Communication Enhancement (AAC-RERC) under grant #H133E080011 from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) in the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) and Tobii Technologies.
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1. The Tobii T60 is an eye-tracker manufactured by Tobii Technologies (http://www.tobii.com/en/eye-tracking-research/global).
2. Tobii Studio software is a product of Tobii Technologies (http://www.tobii.com/en/eye-tracking-research/global).
3. The Canon Rebel T1i is a camera manufactured by Canon U.S.A. Inc. (http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/home).
4. Microsoft Paint is a product manufactured by Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com).