Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada.
Behav Res Methods. 2013 Sep;45(3):842-56. doi: 10.3758/s13428-012-0299-5.
Recurrence quantification analysis (RQA) has been successfully used for describing dynamic systems that are too complex to be characterized adequately by standard methods in time series analysis. More recently, RQA has been used for analyzing the coordination of gaze patterns between cooperating individuals. Here, we extend RQA to the characterization of fixation sequences, and we show that the global and local temporal characteristics of fixation sequences can be captured by a small number of RQA measures that have a clear interpretation in this context. We applied RQA to the analysis of a study in which observers looked at different scenes under natural or gaze-contingent viewing conditions, and we found large differences in the RQA measures between the viewing conditions, indicating that RQA is a powerful new tool for the analysis of the temporal patterns of eye movement behavior.
递归定量分析（RQA）已成功用于描述复杂的动态系统，这些系统用时间序列分析的标准方法无法充分描述。最近，RQA 已被用于分析合作个体之间的注视模式的协调性。在这里，我们将 RQA 扩展到注视序列的特征描述，并且我们表明，注视序列的全局和局部时间特征可以通过少数具有明确解释的 RQA 措施来捕捉。我们将 RQA 应用于一项研究的分析，在该研究中，观察者在自然或注视条件下观看不同的场景，我们发现两种观察条件下的 RQA 测量值存在很大差异，这表明 RQA 是分析眼动行为时间模式的强大新工具。
