Early age-related decline in the effective number of trajectories tracked in adult human vision

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Kennedy, Graeme J ^a   Tripathy, Srimant P ^a,b   Barrett, Brendan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; Memory; Multiple object tracking; Psychophysics; Tracking; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; VISION, OCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649216723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.2.21     Document Type: Article

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