Eye Movements When Looking at Unusual/Weird Scenes: Are There Cultural Differences?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 254-259

  Rayner, Keith ^a   Castelhano, Monica S ^b   Yang, Jinmian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

cultural differences; eye movements; scene perception

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CULTURAL FACTOR; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; TIME; VISION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 58449120177     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013508     Document Type: Article

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