The average duration of the fixations. While studying the map, the average duration of the fixations was 230.0 ms for experts and 244.1 ms for novices. This value was 234.0 ms for females, and 240.1 ms males ( Table 3 ). Although the average duration of fixations of novices was slightly higher than it was for experts, there was only a little difference between expert and novice group, as well as between females and males. None of the differences were significant (Table 3).