Bayesian parameter estimation for the Swift model of eye-movement control during reading

DOI10.1016/J.JMP.2019.102313zbMATH Open1437.91365OpenAlexW3002188036WikidataQ126306710 ScholiaQ126306710MaRDI QIDQ2177484FDOQ2177484

Authors Stefan A. Seelig, Maximilian M. Rabe, Noa Malem-Shinitski, Sarah Risse, Sebastian Reich, Ralf Engbert

Publication date 6 May 2020

Published in Journal of Mathematical Psychology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11110

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian inferenceMCMClikelihood functiondynamical modelssaccadeseye movementsreadinginterindividual differences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15) Cognitive psychology (91E10)

Abstract: Process-oriented theories of cognition must be evaluated against time-ordered observations. Here we present a representative example for data assimilation of the SWIFT model, a dynamical model of the control of spatial fixation position and fixation duration during reading. First, we develop and test an approximate likelihood function of the model, which is a combination of a pseudo-marginal spatial likelihood and an approximate temporal likelihood function. Second, we use a Bayesian approach to parameter inference using an adapative Markov chain Monte Carlo procedure. Our results indicate that model parameters can be estimated reliably for individual subjects. We conclude that approximative Bayesian inference represents a considerable step forward for the area of eye-movement modeling, where modelling of individual data on the basis of process-based dynamic models has not been possible before.

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