Spatiotemporal dynamics of visual attention during saccade preparation: Independence and coupling between attention and movement planning

Journal of Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Montagnini, Anna ^a,b   Castet, Eric ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Saccade; Saccadic programming; Spatial cueing; Time course of attentional modulation; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TIME; VISION;

ATTENTION; CUES; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 36749045704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/7.14.8     Document Type: Article

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