Attentional modulation of the gap effect

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 2602-2607

  Pratt, Jay ^a   Lajonchere, Clara M ^b   Abrams, Richard A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Disengagement; Gap effect; Saccades

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 33646039230     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.01.017     Document Type: Article

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