# ZuCo 2.0: A Dataset of Physiological Recordings During Natural Reading and Annotation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.00903 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.00903/

## Key facts

- Cited by 66 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 2 Dec 2019.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

We recorded and preprocessed ZuCo 2.0, a new dataset of simultaneous eye-tracking and electroencephalography during natural reading and during annotation. This corpus contains gaze and brain activity data of 739 sentences, 349 in a normal reading paradigm and 390 in a task-specific paradigm, in which the 18 participants actively search for a semantic relation type in the given sentences as a linguistic annotation task. This new dataset complements ZuCo 1.0 by providing experiments designed to analyze the differences in cognitive processing between natural reading and annotation. The data is freely available here: https://osf.io/2urht/.