Saccade target selection and object recognition: Evidence for a common attentional mechanism

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1827-1837

  Deubel, Heiner ^a   Schneider, Werner X ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Eye movements; Object recognition; Obligatory coupling; Perception; Saccade; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0029884453     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00294-4     Document Type: Article

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