Microsaccade dynamics during covert attention

Vision Research

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 721-730

  Laubrock, Jochen ^a   Engbert, Ralf ^a   Kliegl, Reinhold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Eye movements; Fixation; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 11444263343     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.09.029     Document Type: Article

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