Changes in the functional visual field during search with and without eye movements

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 2382-2393

  Motter, Brad C ^a,b   Simoni, Diglio A ^a,c  

^a SYRACUSE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^c Syracuse University   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowding; Eye movements; Functional visual field; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 52949124055     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.07.020     Document Type: Article

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