The saccadic Stroop effect: Evidence for involuntary programming of eye movements by linguistic cues

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 569-574

  Hodgson, Timothy L ^a   Parris, Ben A ^b   Gregory, Nicola J ^a   Jarvis, Tracey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Executive control; Language; Oculomotor; Response conflict

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPLAY SYSTEM; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SEMANTICS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61449182083     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.01.001     Document Type: Article

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