Does descriptive text change how people look at art? A novel analysis of eye-movements using data-driven Units of Interest

• Main Authors: Alan Davies (Author), Manuele Reani (Author), Markel Vigo (Author), Simon Harper (Author), Martin Grimes (Author), Clare Gannaway (Author), Caroline Jay (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Bern Open Publishing, 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Does reading a description of an artwork affect how a person subsequently views it? In a controlled study, we show that in most cases, textual description does not influence how people subsequently view paintings, contrary to participants' self-report that they believed it did. To examine wheth...