hi Charly, It sounds like you're thinking of the work being done by Stephen Reynolds and company: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2010AM/finalprogram/abstract_180790.htm cheers, Carol On Feb 12, 2011, at 6:00 AM, Anne Marie Ryan wrote: > Folks, > > I am looking for a paper comparing visual cognition in a > field setting. The research I remember used goggles to track > what feature someone looked at and for how long. Two images > stood out: they showed the same landscape with dots overlain > to highlight what an expert focused on versus a more erratic > wandering of the eye by a novice learner. However, I cannot > remember where I saw this, and I can't find it in JGE or my > fall AGU notes. > > Your help tracking this down would be appreciated. > Thanks, > Charly > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Charly (Carl-Georg) Bank, PhD > Senior Lecturer and Associate Chair (Undergraduate Studies) > Department of Geology, University of Toronto > 22 Russell Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B1 > office: room 2107 > phone: +1 - 416 - 978-4381 > email: [log in to unmask] > Anne Marie Ryan, PhD > Senior Instructor, Earth Sciences Department > Cross-appointed: Environmental Science > Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. Canada B3H 3J5 > Phone: 902-494-3184 Fax: 902-494-6889 > www.earthsciences.dal.ca