title: Information and repetition change children's visual strategies when viewing magic tricks with and without gaze cues.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Pain and Rehabilitation Centre Linköping, Sweden.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ordqvist
authors.forename: Marita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Falkmer
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Parsons
authors.forename: Denise
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Leung
authors.forename: Håkan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fleischer
authors.forename: Joakim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dahlman
authors.forename: Sonya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Girdler
authors.forename: Torbjörn
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Falkmer
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D003463:Cues; D053483:Eye Movement Measurements / Q000295:instrumentation; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions / Q000523:psychology; D008273:Magic / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012938:Social Perception; D013997:Time Factors; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*