Apparatus

Fixation Duration Distribution(Free Viewing of Natural Scene)

I.E. Repin’s“The Unexpected Visitor”

Scan Pathsacross 7 Individuals

Free Viewing3 minutes

N=1

Scan Pathreplications

across successive days

Free Viewing3 minutes

N=1Effect of “Instructional Set”

While Viewing the “Unexpected Visitor”

a. Estimate how long the “unexpected visitor” was absent from the familyb. Remember positions of people and objectsc. Remember clothes worn by the peopled. Infer family’s activities just prior to the “visitor’s” arrivale. Estimate ages of individuals in the picturef. Estimate financial well-being of the familyg. Free viewing (no instruction control)

Effects of “Instructional Set”

1 = ___

2 = ___

3 = ___

4 = ___

5 = ___

6 = ___

7 = ___

Effects of “Instructional Set”

1 = _G__

2 = _F__

3 = _E__

4 = _D__

5 = _C__

6 = _B__

7 = _A__

Answer Key:

Free Viewing AcrossSuccessive 25 sec Epochs (N=1)

Free Viewing AcrossSuccessive 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

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