The Effects of Intermittent Illumination on a Visual Inspection Task

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 135-151

  Kennedy, Alan ^a   Brysbaert, Marc ^b   Murray, Wayne S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER TERMINAL; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COMPUTER TERMINALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0031989522     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713755746     Document Type: Article

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