Information and Repetition Change Children's Visual Strategies When Viewing Magic Tricks with and without Gaze Cues

Gaze cues and direct gaze attract visual attention. However, few studies have explored visual cues in children within realistic contexts. The effect of information and repetitive stimulus presentation has not been thoroughly studied with dynamic stimuli. The aim of the present study was to investiga...

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Published in:Perceptual and motor skills 2013-02, Vol.116 (1), p.144-162
Main Authors: Ordqvist, Anna, Parsons, Richard, Leung, Denise, Dahlman, Joakim, Falkmer, Marita, Fleischer, Håkan, Girdler, Sonya, Falkmer, Torbjörn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attention - physiology
AUSTRALIA
Child
CHILDREN
Children & youth
CONFIDENCE intervals
Cues
DATA analysis
DATA analysis > Software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
EPIDEMIOLOGY
EYE movement measurements
Eye Movement Measurements - instrumentation
Female
Fixation, Ocular - physiology
Humans
Illusions - psychology
Information
MAGIC
Magic - psychology
Male
MEDICIN
Medicin och hälsovetenskap
MEDICINE
Motor ability
Neuropsychological Tests
PROMPTS (Psychology)
REGRESSION analysis
Samhällsvetenskap
Social Perception
Social Sciences
Time Factors
U-statistics
VISUAL acuity
VISUAL perception
Visual Perception - physiology
Visual task performance
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Summary:Gaze cues and direct gaze attract visual attention. However, few studies have explored visual cues in children within realistic contexts. The effect of information and repetitive stimulus presentation has not been thoroughly studied with dynamic stimuli. The aim of the present study was to investigate how information affects the visual strategies of children measured by the number of fixations on certain areas of interest and their durations. Furthermore, this study examined the effect of gaze cues and direct gaze. In two consecutive experiments, children's visual strategies when viewing magic tricks were measured by an eye tracker. Gaze cues were only present in Experiment 1. The results showed that repetitive stimulus presentation and information caused children to change their visual strategies when viewing magic tricks with and without gaze cues. However, the effect was larger when the gaze cues were not present. These findings in children were similar to those in adults.
ISSN:0031-5125
1558-688X
1558-688X
DOI:10.2466/10.24.26.PMS.116.1.144-162