Eye-Movement Data on Passive Sentence Comprehension in Children Aged 6–10

67 Russian-speaking participants, including children aged 6–10 and adults, performed a sentence-picture matching task while their eye movements were tracked. The dataset, created by Olga V. Kruchinina and shared in May 2026, reveals a dissociation between behavioral accuracy and online processing maturity in syntactic development. Results show adult-like accuracy by age 8–10, but incremental revision mechanisms continue to develop.

Use Cases

• Modeling the developmental trajectory of incremental sentence parsing based on age and eye-tracking signatures.
• Analyzing the relationship between behavioral accuracy and online processing measures like fixation duration and gaze returns.
• Investigating how children use morphosyntactic cues for real-time thematic role revision in passive sentences.
• Comparing processing strategies (e.g., 'wait-and-listen' vs. incremental revision) across different age groups.

Strengths

• Data includes 67 participants across three age groups (6–7 years, 8–10 years, adults), allowing for developmental comparison.
• Eye-tracking provides a sensitive, real-time measure of cognitive processing not captured by accuracy alone.
• The study design minimized semantic cues, forcing reliance on morphosyntactic markers for clear syntactic analysis.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The sample is limited to Russian-speaking participants, which may affect generalizability to other languages.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Eye-tracking during a sentence-picture matching task with Russian-speaking participants.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-08 05:51:38; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely Russia, based on participant language.