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Viewing another person's eye movements improves identification of pulmonary nodules in chest x-ray inspection.

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Viewing another person's eye movements improves identification of pulmonary nodules in chest x-ray inspection. / Litchfield, Damien; Ball, Linden J.; Donovan, Tim et al.
In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, Vol. 16, No. 3, 09.2010, p. 251-262.

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Litchfield, D, Ball, LJ, Donovan, T, Manning, DJ & Crawford, T 2010, 'Viewing another person's eye movements improves identification of pulmonary nodules in chest x-ray inspection.', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 251-262. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020082

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Litchfield, D., Ball, L. J., Donovan, T., Manning, D. J., & Crawford, T. (2010). Viewing another person's eye movements improves identification of pulmonary nodules in chest x-ray inspection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 16(3), 251-262. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020082

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Litchfield D, Ball LJ, Donovan T, Manning DJ, Crawford T. Viewing another person's eye movements improves identification of pulmonary nodules in chest x-ray inspection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 2010 Sept;16(3):251-262. doi: 10.1037/a0020082

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Litchfield, Damien ; Ball, Linden J. ; Donovan, Tim et al. / Viewing another person's eye movements improves identification of pulmonary nodules in chest x-ray inspection. In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 2010 ; Vol. 16, No. 3. pp. 251-262.

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abstract = "Double reading of chest x-rays is often used to ensure that fewer abnormalities are missed, but very little is known about how the search behavior of others affects observer performance. A series of experiments investigated whether radiographers benefit from knowing where another person looked for pulmonary nodules, and whether the expertise of the model providing the search behavior was a contributing factor. Experiment 1 compared the diagnostic performance of novice and experienced radiographers examining chest x-rays and found that both groups performed better when shown the search behavior of either a novice radiographer or an expert radiologist. Experiment 2 established that benefits in performance only arose when the eye movements shown were related to the search for nodules; however, only the novices' diagnostic performance consistently improved when shown the expert's search behavior. Experiment 3 reexamined the contribution of task, image, and the expertise of the model underlying this benefit. Consistent with Experiment 1. novice radiographers were better at identifying nodules when shown either a naive's search behavior or an expert radiologist's search behavior, but they demonstrated no improvement when shown a naive model not searching for nodules. Our results suggest that although the benefits of this form of attentional guidance may be short-lived, novices can scaffold their decisions based on the search behavior of others.",
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