Fewer fixations of longer duration can lead to more fixations of longer duration

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If you found the title confusing, that is exactly the point of the current commentary paper. The term ‘fewer fixations of longer duration’, which has regularly been used in sports science literature to describe the visual behaviour of expert performers (Abernethy & Russell, 1987; Brams et al., 2019; Casanova et al., 2013; Catteeuw, Helsen, Gilis, Van Roie, & Wagemans, 2009; Causer, Vickers, Snelgrove, Arsenault, & Harvey, 2014; Discombe & Cotterill, 2015; Klostermann & Moeinirad, 2020; Mann, Williams, Ward, & Janelle, 2007; Mcguckian & Cole, 2017; Piras, Pierantozzi, & Squatrito, 2014; Savelsbergh, Williams, Van Der Kamp, & Ward, 2002; Williams, Janelle, & Davids, 2004), can be interpreted in two ways. Either expert performers make fewer fixations but these are of longer duration, or they make fewer long fixations. …