This project contains the data, stimuli and code for the paper :
**Ice hockey spectators use contextual cues to guide predictive eye movements**
from Alexander Goettker, Hemanth Pidaparthy, Doris I. Braun, James H. Elder and Karl R. Gegenfurtner published as a Correspondance in Current Biology
A detailed description of the available data can be found in readme file inside the respective folders.
**The goal** of the project was to directly compare eye movement behavior to simple synthetic stimuli often used in basic oculomotor studies to eye movement behavior when viewing naturalistic scenes. For this we used Ice Hockey clips, where the puck position in each frame was hand-labelled. Participants either saw a disk representing the puck moving in front of a gray background or the full hockey clip. The difference in oculomotor behavior observed for this comparison allowed to make two important points:
(1) Generalizing results from simple studies to naturalistic behavior is difficult as this does not capture all relevant factors
(2) Semantic knoweldge and scene context directly influences oculomotor behavior and improves tracking performance