Microsaccades distinguish between global and local visual processing

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1015-1018

  Turatto, Massimo ^a   Valsecchi, Matteo ^a   Tamè, Luigi ^a   Betta, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distributed attention; Eye movements; Focused attention; Global visual processing; Microsaccades

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLINKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 34250182393     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32815b615b     Document Type: Article

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