The relative contributions of luminance contrast and task demands on saccade target selection

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 2743-2748

  Ludwig, Casimir J H ^a   Gilchrist, Iain D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast; Latency; Saccade; Salience; Spatial frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LIGHTING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 33646125847     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.02.012     Document Type: Article

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