Saccade target selection during visual search

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 617-631

  Findlay, John M ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feature integration; Human; Saccade; Search; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION;

ADULT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; VISION;

EID: 0031106702     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00218-0     Document Type: Article

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