Asymmetries of saccadic eye movements in oriented-line-target search

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 65-70

  Foster, David H ^a   Savage, C Julie ^a   Mannan, Sabira ^b   Ruddock, Keith H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Orientation sensitivity; Saccadic eye movements; Search asymmetry; Target detection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BINOCULAR VISION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 0033990239     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00164-9     Document Type: Article

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