Crowding degrades saccadic search performance

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 417-425

  Vlaskamp, Björn N S ^a   Hooge, Ignace Th C ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crowding; Fixation; Saccade; Search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISIBILITY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SACCADES;

EID: 29144515400     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.04.006     Document Type: Article

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