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Finding meaning in eye movements

It is easier to make sense of the visual environment if we know where to look. Eye movement measurements show just how quickly we can find the informative parts of a scene, even when we do not know what to expect.

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Cave, K.R. Finding meaning in eye movements. Nat Hum Behav 1, 709–710 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0217-z

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