Improvement of visual acuity by spatial cueing: A comparative study in human and non-human primates

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1589-1600

  Golla, Heidrun ^a   Ignashchenkova, Alla ^a   Haarmeier, Thomas ^a   Thier, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Covert shift of attention; Cue; Human subjects; Landolt C; Macaque mullata; Precue; Retinal eccentricity; SOA; Spatial attention; Spatial resolution; Visual acuity; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 2342640136     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.01.009     Document Type: Article

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