Fixation identification: The optimum threshold for a dispersion algorithm

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 881-895

  Blignaut, Pieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ATTENTION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650137115     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.4.881     Document Type: Article

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