A syntactic analysis method for sinusoidal tracking eye movements

A syntactic method for the recognition of sinusoidal eye movements is presented. The method is based on a piecewise transformation of an eye movement signal to strings of a formal language and use of a formal grammar which generates the formal language. Gain and phase parameters of sinusoidal eye movements between a stimulus and its response are computed after the recognition of eye movements and after removing corrective saccades from the transformed signal. The method is used at an otoneurological laboratory.