Attentional release in the saccadic gap effect

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2045-2055

  Jin, Zhenlan ^a   Reeves, Adam ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention release; Gap effect; Latency; Motor reaction times; Saccades; Warning effects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650506877     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.02.015     Document Type: Article

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