The role of eye fixations in concentration and amplification effects during multiple object tracking

Visual Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 574-597

  Doran, Matthew M ^a   Hoffman, James E ^a   Scholl, Brian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 67849087210     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280802117010     Document Type: Article

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