Visual memory capacity in transsaccadic integration

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 609-628

  Prime, Steven L ^a,b,c   Tsotsos, Lia ^c   Keith, Gerald P ^a,b,c   Crawford, J Douglas ^a,b,c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Saccades; Visual perception; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34250866252     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-0885-4     Document Type: Article

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