Influence of target and distractor contrast on the remote distractor effect

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 28, 2008, Pages 2805-2816

  Born, Sabine ^a   Kerzel, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Contrast; Distractor; Eye movement; Latency; Saccade

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55649090770     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

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