Saccade target selection: Do distractors affect saccade accuracy?

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1267-1274

  Findlay, John M ^a   Blythe, Hazel I ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Amplitude; Attention; Human; Oculomotor; Saccade

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISTRACTIBILITY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349173182     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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