The dependence of visual scanning performance on search direction and difficulty

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 2184-2192

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

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Acuity; Attention; Fixation; Human; Perceptual span; Saccade; Scanning; Search direction; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIRECTIONAL VISION; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SCANNING PERFORMANCE;

ATTENTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 51649088616     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.06.025     Document Type: Article

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