Visual scanning patterns of skilled archaeologists when observing pottery

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  • TOKITSU Yuko
    Graduate School of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University

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  • 考古学的熟達者の土器注視パターン
  • コウコガクテキ ジュクタツシャ ノ ドキ チュウシ パターン

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The present study examines the visual scanning patterns of experienced archaeologists in order to understand the cognitive skills involved in identifying artificial objects. Twelve participants-nine with varying levels of archaeological experiences, ranging from introductory to advanced, and three with no archaeological experience-took part in the experiment, which monitored their eye movements, using eye camera (EMR model 8), while they observed either pottery as an experimental stimulus or an industrial flower pot as a control stimulus. The results indicated the following: a) the skilled experts fixated their eyes more frequently on the general outlines of the objects than the novices and naïve participants, and b) experts exhibited longer inter-fixation distances and short fixations durations than novices and naïve participants. It is suggested that expert archaeologists pay greater attention to morphological features and proportional aspects when observing objects.

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