The use of visual search to assess attention

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-25

  Skottun, Bernt Christian ^a   Skoyles, John ^b,c  

^a Skottun Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Dyslexia; Perceptual disorders; Time factors; Vision physiology; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; VISION;

ATTENTION; DYSLEXIA; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33847334799     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.2006.00074.x     Document Type: Article

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