No evidence for prolonged latency of saccadic eye movements due to intermittent light of a CRT computer screen

Ergonomics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 105-114

  Jainta, Stephanie ^a   Jaschinski, Wolfgang ^a   Baccino, Thierry ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Displays; Eye movements; Flicker; Individual differences; Saccades

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MONITORS; FLUORESCENT LAMPS; FLUORESCENT SCREENS; VISION;

CRITICAL FLICKER FREQUENCIES (CFF); FLUORESCENT LAMP DISPLAY (FLD);

EYE MOVEMENTS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER TERMINAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT LIGHTING; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0842328711     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0014013032000157904     Document Type: Article

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