Blinks, blanks and saccades: How blind we really are for relevant visual events

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 140, Issue , 2002, Pages 119-131

  Dornhoefer, Sascha M ^a   Unema, Pieter J A ^b   Velichkovsky, Boris M ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; BLINKING; CONFERENCE PAPER; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 18744410924     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(02)40046-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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