Preattentive guidance of eye movements during triple conjunction search tasks: The effects of feature discriminability and saccadic amplitude

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 476-488

  Williams, Diane E ^a   Reingold, Eyal M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0035462439     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196182     Document Type: Article

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