Rothkegel et al. 38 eyes move towards the other side of an image. Finally, sudden onsets of stimuli are often used in other laboratory tasks as well (e.g., visual search, face perception). To what extend our results generalize to other domains remains an open question but an early initial CFB might also bias initial fixations in these tasks. Delaying the first saccadic response by 125 ms or more relative to image onset reduced the central fixation bias, which is most pronounced during early fixations. The latency of the first saccade after image onset was the main predictor for the distance to image center of the second fixation in all four experiments relatively independent of the time we enforced. Thus our results suggest to use a modified version of the scene viewing paradigm to better understand target selection beyond the central fixation bias. Conclusion Acknowledgements This work was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (grants EN 471/13-1 and WI 2103/4-1 to R. E. and F. A. W., resp.). We thank Benjamin Tatler for providing us with the images of natural scenes from his seminal paper about the central fixation bias. Arizpe, J., Kravitz, D. J., Yovel, G., & Baker, C. I. (2012). Start position strongly influences fixation patterns during face processing: Difficulties with eye movements as a measure of information use. PloS one , 7 (2), e31106. doi: http://dx. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031106. References