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

Eye-tracking data from 67 participants (children aged 6–10 and adults) performing a sentence-picture matching task in Russian. The dataset captures real-time processing of four sentence types to examine the development of incremental syntactic revision. The data was authored by Olga V. Kruchinina and last updated on 2026-05-08.

Use Cases

• Modeling the developmental trajectory of incremental syntactic processing based on age-related changes in oculomotor patterns.
• Analyzing the dissociation between behavioral accuracy and online processing mechanisms in children.
• Comparing fixation duration and gaze return signatures at critical morphosyntactic revision points.
• Investigating the transition from a 'wait-and-listen' strategy to word-by-word hypothesis revision in middle childhood.

Strengths

• Data includes 67 participants across three age groups, providing a developmental comparison.
• Experimental design minimized semantic cues, forcing reliance on morphosyntactic markers for clear syntactic analysis.
• Linear mixed models treated age as a continuous variable to capture fine-grained developmental trajectories.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is small at 124.6 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Eye-tracking in a sentence-picture matching task.

Time Range

Data collection timeframe is not specified.

Freshness

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

Geography

Likely involves Russian-speaking participants; specific location is not stated.