Gaze distractors influence saccadic curvature: Evidence for the role of the oculomotor system in gaze-cued orienting

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 3674-3680

  Nummenmaa, Lauri ^a   Hietanen, Jari K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Attention; Gaze; Oculomotor system; Saccade

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SACCADES;

EID: 33748434590     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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