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What fixations reveal about oculomotor scanning behavior in visual search

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2017

Zhuanghua Shi ,
Xuelian Zang  and
Thomas Geyer
Zhuanghua Shi
Affiliation:
General and Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology, LMU Munich, 80802 Munich, Germany. [email protected]@psy.lmu.de
Xuelian Zang
Affiliation:
General and Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology, LMU Munich, 80802 Munich, Germany. [email protected]@psy.lmu.de China Centre for Special Economic Zone Research, Shenzhen University, Guangdong Sheng 518060, China. [email protected]
Thomas Geyer
Affiliation:
General and Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology, LMU Munich, 80802 Munich, Germany. [email protected]@psy.lmu.de
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Abstract

Hulleman & Olivers' (H&O's) conceptual framework does not consider variation of fixation duration and its interaction with the size of the functional viewing field (FVF). Here we provide empirical evidence of a dynamic interaction between the two parameters, suggesting that fixations, as the central unit in H&O's framework, should be studied on both the spatial and temporal dimensions.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e155
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