Research Article

Measuring Distraction at the Levels of Tactical and Strategic Control: The Limits of Capacity-Based Measures for Revealing Unsafe Visual Sampling Models

Table 3

Subjectively Reported Visual Sampling Strategies of the Participants in the Experiment  2.

Text typeStrategy

S1: The participant read from the beginning of each sentence, from top to bottom. Each sentence was read only so far as was necessary to comprehend whether the contents were relevant .
SpacedS2: The participant read the beginnings of the sentences, but jumped across sentences without a clear order .
S3: The participant read the beginnings of the sentences and jumped sentences, but also searched for relevant words from other parts of the sentences .

S4: The participant mentally cropped the text to sub areas by trying to find points of reference in the text, and searched for relevant words within the areas .
CompressedS5: The participant searched for relevant words everywhere without a clear order .
S6: The participant read every sentence until found the answer, from top to bottom .