Fixation point offsets facilitate endogenous saccades

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 201-208

  Abrams, Richard A ^a   Oonk, Heather M ^a   Pratt, Jay ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; HEARING; HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SOUND DETECTION;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0031989577     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03206029     Document Type: Article

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