Saccades require focal attention and are facilitated by a short-term memory system

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1555-1566

  McPeek, Robert M ^a,c   Maljkovic, Vera ^b   Nakayama, Ken ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Priming; Saccade; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; EYE FIXATION; FACILITATION; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 0033120348     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00228-4     Document Type: Article

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