12 Rothkegel et al. for the first group of participants. However, this effect was not replicated in a retest with 20 new participants. In this experiment the long influence of the pre-trial fixation time indeed vanished. The early effect of the CFB did not differ in the two groups of participants. The CFB of the second fixation did strongly depend on the latency of the initial saccade (Fig. 2b). Thus, the early differences between pre-trial fixation times in Figure 2a are driven by differences in the distribution of intial saccade latencies. These results replicated our earlier findings of a reduced CFB during scene perception by introducing a non-zero pre-trial fixation time (Rothkegel et al., 2016). A delay of 125 ms seemed sufficient to achieve a considerable reduction. In addition, our results suggested that the most important mediating factor of the CFB was the latency of the first saccadic response. Saccades with brief saccade latencies were on average directed more strongly towards the center than saccades with long saccade latencies. To assure that our results from Experiment 1 were not mainly induced by the extreme starting positions we conducted another experiment with starting positions closer to the image center. Participants . We recorded eye movements from 20 participants for Experiment 2 (17 female; 14-28 years old; 1 from a nearby high school). Procedure . Experiment 2 was similar to Experiment 1 except that the fixation cross was presented on a donut shaped ring with a distance of 2.6 ◦ to 7.8 ◦ (100 to 300 pixels) to the center. We used this donut shaped ring to obtain intermediate starting positions neither Experiment 2 Methods