Comparing radiographs with signaling improves anomaly detection of dental students: An eye‐tracking study

Dental students commit many errors when diagnosing radiographs. To improve performance, were asked to compare radiographs (with and without disease or with the same disease); relevant structures highlighted in In a crossover design, randomly assigned two groups differing training order: Students peripheral-central-group (N = 39) first trained detect anomalies periphery before receiving on center; trainings central-peripheral-group reversed. We measured detection rates gaze behavior after each training. The revealed differences line our expectations; moreover, accounting for varying difficulty of tests sets there within-groups improvements peripheral-central group. Unexpectedly, was unaffected by intervention. discuss shorter learning times sequence effects as potential causes findings.