Does gravity matter? Effects of semantic and syntactic inconsistencies on the allocation of attention during scene perception

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Võ, Melissa L H ^a,b   Henderson, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Foveal versus extrafoveal processing; Object scene inconsistency; Semantics versus syntax

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RETINA FOVEA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; FOVEA CENTRALIS; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64549113649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.3.24     Document Type: Article

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