To establish whether the eye-movement strategy in visual search is cha
ngeable by training, three groups of ten subjects each were trained on
different strategies using performance feedback and eye movement moni
toring. The task was inspection of simulated solder joint arrays, with
three levels of field size and three target types. Training in system
atic search produced significantly higher performance than natural sea
rch, while random search training degraded performance. These results
generalized across both field size and target types. Individual differ
ences were less well predicted by pretests than in comparable studies.
It is concluded that strategy training can be effective in adoption o
f a desirable systematic search strategy.