Dynamic allocation of visual attention during the execution of sequences of saccades

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1469-1483

  Gersch, Timothy M ^a   Kowler, Eileen ^a   Dosher, Barbara ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allocation of attention; Attention; Contrast sensitivity; Contrast thresholds; Eye movements; Intersaccadic pause; Saccades; Saccadic sequences; Saccadic suppression

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1842505193     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2003.12.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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