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Give me a break! Unavoidable fatigue effects in cognitive pupillometry by Drew J. McLaughlin; Maggie E. Zink; Lauren Gaunt; Jamie Reilly; Mitchell S. Sommers; Kristin J. Van Engen; Jonathan E. Peelle is a Neuroscience article available to read on EtoBox.

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Pupillometry has a rich history in the study of perception and cognition. One perennial challenge is that the magnitude of the task-evoked pupil response diminishes over the course of an experiment, a phenomenon we refer to as a fatigue effect. Reducing fatigue effects may improve sensitivity to task effects and reduce the likelihood of confounds due to systematic physiological changes over time. In this paper, we investigated the degree to which fatigue effects could be ameliorated by experimenter intervention. In Experiment 1, we assigned participants to one of three groups-no breaks, kinetic breaks (playing with toys, but no social interaction), or chatting with a research assistant-and compared the pupil response across conditions. In Experiment 2, we additionally tested the effect of researcher observation. Only breaks including social interaction significantly reduced the fatigue of the pupil response across trials. However, in all conditions we found robust evidence for fatigue effects: that is, regardless of protocol, the task-evoked pupil response was substantially diminished (at least 60%) over the duration of the experiment. We account for the variance of fatigue effects

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Author

Drew J. McLaughlin; Maggie E. Zink; Lauren Gaunt; Jamie Reilly; Mitchell S. Sommers; Kristin J. Van Engen; Jonathan E. Peelle

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Neuroscience (Life Sciences)