Guidance of eye movements during visual conjunction search: Local and global contextual effects on target discriminability

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2845-2855

  Shen, Kelly ^a,b   Paré, Martin ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646169127     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00898.2005     Document Type: Article

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