The gap effect for eye and hand movements

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 628-635

  Bekkering, Harold ^a,b   Pratt, Jay ^c   Abrams, Richard A ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 0030135249     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03213095     Document Type: Article

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