Tracking the changing features of multiple objects: Progressively poorer perceptual precision and progressively greater perceptual lag

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1164-1180

  Howard, Christina J ^a   Holcombe, Alex O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Dynamic feature tracking; Processing; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; EFFECT SIZE; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ATTENTION; CUES; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 41649084112     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.01.023     Document Type: Article

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