title: Yarbus, eye movements, and vision.
abstract: The impact of Yarbus's research on eye movements was enormous following the translation of his book Eye Movements and Vision into English in 1967. In stark contrast, the published material in English concerning his life is scant. We provide a brief biography of Yarbus and assess his impact on contemporary approaches to research on eye movements. While early interest in his work focused on his study of stabilised retinal images, more recently this has been replaced with interest in his work on the cognitive influences on scanning patterns. We extended his experiment on the effect of instructions on viewing a picture using a portrait of Yarbus rather than a painting. The results obtained broadly supported those found by Yarbus.
authors: School of Psychology, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN, UK; e-mail:  b.w.tatler@dundee.ac.uk.
authors: Benjamin W
authors: BW
authors: Tatler
authors: Nicholas J
authors: NJ
authors: Wade
authors: Hoi
authors: H
authors: Kwan
authors: John M
authors: JM
authors: Findlay
authors: Boris M
authors: BM
authors: Velichkovsky
keywords: Yarbus; eye guidance; eye movement; face perception; history; saccade; scene perception; stabilised retinal image
references: Vision Res. 1982;22(2):293-302
references: 7101765
references: Nature. 1994 Jun 30;369(6483):742-4
references: 8008066
references: J Vis. 2009 Feb 09;9(2):7.1-16
references: 19271917
references: J Physiol. 1961 Dec;159:339-60
references: 14490420
references: Brain. 1963 Jun;86:219-28
references: 13931765
references: J Physiol. 1961 Dec;159:361-4
references: 14490421
references: Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2009 Feb;19(1):52-6
references: 19481441
references: J Exp Psychol. 1950 Dec;40(6):687-701
references: 14803643
references: Opt Acta (Lond). 1963 Oct;10:325-31
references: 14102999
references: J Physiol. 1964 Nov;174:245-64
references: 14244121
references: Nature. 1952 Jul 5;170(4314):36-7
references: 14957011
references: Perception. 2008;37(4):571-83
references: 18546664
references: Psychol Bull. 1964 Jul;62:21-35
references: 14176650
references: Rev Oculomot Res. 1990;4:1-70
references: 7492527
references: Psychol Rev. 2006 Oct;113(4):766-86
references: 17014302
references: Perception. 2010;39(4):533-42
references: 20515000
references: Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 1992 Sep 29;337(1281):331-8; discussion 338-9
references: 1359587
references: J Physiol. 1952 Mar;116(3):290-306
references: 14939180
references: Neuropsychologia. 2005;43(1):52-9
references: 15488905
references: Perception. 1999;28(11):1311-28
references: 10755142