Saccades and covert shifts of attention during active visual search: Spatial distributions, memory, and items per fixation

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1261-1281

  Motter, B C ^a,b   Holsapple, J ^b  

^a SYRACUSE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Crowding; IOR; Macaque; Memory; Visual search

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; MEMORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34047271073     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.02.006     Document Type: Article

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