Saccadic search performance: The effect of element spacing

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 246-259

  Vlaskamp, Björn N S ^a   Over, Eelco A B ^a   Hooge, Ignace Th C ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crowding; Saccade; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPACE; TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 28444444541     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0032-z     Document Type: Article

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