Influence of foveal distractors on saccadic eye movements: A dead zone for the global effect

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 28, 2006, Pages 4684-4708

  Vitu, Françoise ^a   Lancelin, Denis ^a   Jean, Alexandre ^b   Farioli, Fernand ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Institut Catholique de Paris   (France)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Global effect; Reading; Saccade amplitude; Saccade latency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EYE; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RETINA FOVEA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FIXATION, OCULAR; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33751258607     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.08.029     Document Type: Article

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