Memory for the search path: Evidence for a high-capacity representation of search history

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1745-1755

  Dickinson, Christopher A ^a   Zelinsky, Gregory J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity limitations; Eye movements; Scanpaths; Visual search; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34248591089     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.02.010     Document Type: Article

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