Eye movements selective for spatial frequency and orientation during active visual search

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 173-181

  Tavassoli, A ^a,b   Linde, I van der ^a,c   Bovik, A C ^a,b   Cormack, L K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1 f noise; Classification images; Eye movements; Orientation tuning; Reverse correlation; Spatial frequency selectivity; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISION;

ADULT; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 58049191307     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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