Role of focal attention on latencies and trajectories of visually guided manual pointing

Journal of Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 982-995

  Song, Joo Hyun ^a,b   Nakayama, Ken ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed attention; Focal attention; Manual pointing; Perceptual grouping; Perceptual priming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; COLOR; FINGERS; HAND; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748193791     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/6.9.11     Document Type: Article

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