Attention during active visual tasks: Counting, pointing, or simply looking

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1017-1031

  Wilder, John D ^a   Kowler, Eileen ^a   Schnitzer, Brian S ^a   Gersch, Timothy M ^a   Dosher, Barbara A ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Counting; Eye movements; Localization; Natural tasks; Orientation identification; Perception; Pointing; Psychophysics; Saccades

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SACCADES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 66049164408     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.04.032     Document Type: Article

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