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Information and Repetition Change Children's Visual Strategies When Viewing Magic Tricks With and Without Gaze Cues

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Ordqvist, A.
Parsons, Richard
Leung, Denise
Dahlman, J.
Falkmer, Marita
Fleischer, H.
Girdler, Sonya
Falkmer, Torbjorn
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2013
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Ordqvist, Anna and Parsons, Richard and Leung, Denise and Dahlman, Joakim and Falkmer, Marita and Fleischer, Hakan and Girdler, Sonya et al. 2013. Information and Repetition Change Children's Visual Strategies When Viewing Magic Tricks With and Without Gaze Cues. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 116 (1): pp. 144-162.
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Perceptual and Motor Skills
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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.