Rothkegel et al. 2 aspects of the attention distribution over a scene and possible dependencies between successive fixations we investigate the influence of the eye’s starting position on subsequent viewing behavior based on statistical and dynamical assumptions about eye guidance. Processes that influence the selection of upcoming saccade targets can be divided into three different categories of theoretical principles that are typically discussed. Bottom-up processes derive from properties of the viewed stimulus (Mannan, Ruddock, & Wooding, 1996; Itti, Koch, & Niebur, 1998; Parkhurst, Law, & Niebur, 2002). Top-down processes depend on the mental state of an observer, e.g., the observers’ visual memory (Henderson & Hollingworth, 2003) or the instruction given to the observer before inspection of a scene (Yarbus, Haigh, & Rigss, 1967; Castelhano, Mack, & Henderson, 2009). Finally, systematic tendencies describe eye movement behavior found in many experiments inde- pendent of stimulus and observer. The initial selection of the center of an image (Tatler, 2007; Bindemann, 2010), the tendency to make initial movements in the leftward direction (Dickinson & Intraub, 2009; Foulsham, Gray, Nasiopoulos, & Kingstone, 2013; Ossand´ on, Onat, & K¨ onig, 2014) or the preference for horizontal over vertical saccades (Foulsham & Kingstone, 2010) belong to this category. Research on bottom-up processes has been particularly successful to predict fixation lo- cations from low-level image features such as contrast, orientation and color (Itti et al., 1998; Torralba, 2003; Kienzle, Wichmann, Franz, & Sch¨ olkopf, 2006). For a given scene, computational models generate a saliency map , a 2D probability distribution that indi- cates the probability of receiving a fixation in an eye tracking experiment with human participants (Itti et al., 1998; Itti & Koch, 2000; Judd, Durand, & Torralba, 2012; Borji & Itti, 2013). Thus, a saliency map is a stationary model that computes probabilities for all locations simultaneously.