Silmo Academy: the award goes to Italians

During the second edition of “Silmo Academy”, the numerous posters that came from all over Europe were assessed by the Scientific Committee headed by Guy Charlot and including Yves Poliquen, Bernard Maitenaz, Jean Claude Hache, Christian Corbe, Elaine Grisdale, Jean Paul Roosen and Gilles Bordeau, for the award for the most valuable and qualified work of research.
This year, the award went to Italy and the poster: “A comparison of objective (Readalyzer) and subjective (DEM test) evaluations of ocular movements” by Maria Vittoria Manzoli, Alessio Facchin, Silvio Maffioletti and Roberto Pregliasco.
The work investigated and compared an objective and a subjective method for evaluating ocular movements. For the objective method, a Readalyzer was used; by means of an infrared device, it registers and analyzes ocular movements while reading and produces a series of parameters that can then be evaluated. The subjective method was performed with the use of a Developmental Eye Movement test (DEM), a very widespread and useful test for the functional evaluation of ocular movements while reading.
The research by Maria Vittoria Manzoli, Alessio Facchin, Silvio Maffioletti and Roberto Pregliasco was a clinical and statistical analysis of the two methods for observing and evaluating saccadic ocular movements while reading.