Manipulating saccadic decision-rate distributions in visual search

Journal of Vision

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 150-164

  Beintema, Jaap A ^a   van Loon, Editha M ^b   van den Berg, Albert V ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision model; Eye movements; Latency; Saccades; Timing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BETA PRIME DISTRIBUTION; EYE FIXATION; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBABILITY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 27244444337     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/5.3.1     Document Type: Article

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