Eye movements and visuospatial problem solving: Identifying separable phases of complex cognition

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 818-830

  Kaller, Christoph P ^a   Rahm, Benjamin ^b   Bolkenius, Kristina ^c   Unterrainer, Josef M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Planning; Problem structure; Tower of London

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 66949130300     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00821.x     Document Type: Article

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