The dependence of visual scanning performance on saccade, fixation, and perceptual metrics

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 926-936

  Phillips, Matthew H ^a   Edelman, Jay A ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Fixation; Human; Perceptual learning; Saccade; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; GAZE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ATTENTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 39749100501     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.12.020     Document Type: Article

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