Hi: Last year (I can't remember the date of the issue) Scientific American ran a short article about a Professor of cognition who was using a portable eye tracker to test geological cognition in the Field. (I believe that the Professor was from the University of Rochester). I hope this helps. Jeff Dodick ____________________________________________________ Jeff Dodick Science Teaching Center The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Givat Ram, Jerusalem Israel 91904 tel: 972-2-6586492 > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.