Attentional Synchrony and the Affects of Repetitve Movie Viewing

Attentional synchrony is a new theory in the studies of scene perception, proposing that multiple viewers of dynamic scenes attend to the same location of the scene at the same time. The following paper investigated the effects of repetitive viewing of a professionally edited movie scene on the attentional synchrony of viewers. Participants were required to view a scene from the James Bond movie, Casino Royale, while their eye movements were recorded. The results of the study showed that there was a decline in the degree of attentional synchrony both withinand betweensubjects, though there was a higher degree of attentional synchrony along the horizontal axis in comparison to the