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Figure 5.16. Experiments 7 – 10: Average fixation duration on different<br />

components of scene<br />

Section 5.3.2. Discussion<br />

The analysis to compare eye movements across Experiments 7, 8, 9 and<br />

10 confirmed two findings from the analysis of the individual experiments<br />

already reported and revealed two additional new findings.<br />

This meta-analysis confirmed that in Experiments 7, 8 and 10<br />

participants looked for longer and more often at the object than background<br />

components of a scene (as measured by total gaze duration and number of<br />

fixations), whereas in Experiment 9 participants looked for longer and more<br />

often at the background than object. However, unexpectedly there was no<br />

significant interaction between emotion, scene component and experiment for<br />

number of fixations or total gaze duration. This means that there is no evidence<br />

of a lack of attention narrowing onto the negative object in scenes in<br />

Experiment 9. Although, we can conclude that despite the radically different<br />

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