Unlike most other chapters in Eye movements and vision, that on ‘Eye movements during perception of complex objects’ presents a series of figures and eye movement records before describing their import. It commences with six full page illustrations (Figures 107-112) devoted to observation of the painting They did not expect him by Ilya Yefimovich Repin, and it is these that have attracted the attention of contemporary students of eye movements. The patterns of eye movements over the painting varied with the instructions given to the observer. In 2009 DeAngelus and Pelz essentially confirmed Yarbus’s attentional effects with more observers using Repin’s painting as the stimulus.
Yarbus’s data originally published in Figure 109 of Eye movements and vision.