Apparatus
Fixation Duration Distribution
(Free Viewing of Natural Scene)
I.E. Repin’s
“The Unexpected Visitor”
Scan Paths
across 7 Individuals
Free Viewing
3 minutes
N=1
Scan Path
replications
across
successive days
Free Viewing
3 minutes
N=1
Effect of “Instructional Set”
While Viewing the “Unexpected Visitor”
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
Estimate how long the “unexpected visitor” was absent from the family
Remember positions of people and objects
Remember clothes worn by the people
Infer family’s activities just prior to the “visitor’s” arrival
Estimate ages of individuals in the picture
Estimate financial well-being of the family
Free viewing (no instruction control)
Effects of “Instructional Set”
1 = ___
2 = ___
3 = ___
4 = ___
5 = ___
6 = ___
7 = ___
Free Viewing Across
Successive 25 sec Epochs (N=1)
Free Viewing Across
Successive 5-sec Epochs (N=1)
Free Viewing of Woman’s Face
(1 minute)
Free Viewing (3 minutes)
“Girl from the Volga”
Free Viewing (2 minutes)
Profile of “Queen Nefertiti”
Free Viewing (10 minutes)
“The Birch Wood”
Free Viewing (10 minutes)
“In the Forest”
Reading a Shakespeare Sonnet
Photokymographic
(moving film)
record
Reading a Shakespeare Sonnet
Static Photographic Record
End