Figure 1.

Schematic of encoding-related eye movement effects. Adapted from Henderson, William, and Falk, 2005 [12]. Participants viewed, and were subsequently tested on their memory for, a series of faces. During encoding (left column), participants were presented with images of faces. In the free viewing conditions (row 1, left), participants were able to move their eyes freely during learning, whereas in the fixed viewing condition (row 2, left), participants were required to maintain central fixation. During a recognition test (right), participants were presented with repeated and novel faces under free viewing conditions and were required to make an old/new recognition response. The mean percentage of correctly identified faces was significantly lower for faces encoded under the fixed viewing condition compared to faces encoded under the free viewing condition, suggesting that eye movements facilitate the binding of stimulus features at encoding for subsequent memory.