Overt and covert visual search in primates: Reaction times and gaze shift strategies

Journal of Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 137-174

  NotHdurt, Hans Christoph ^a   Pigatev, Ivan N ^b   Kastner, Sabine ^c  

^a Visual Perception Laboratory VPL   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Eye movements; Humans; Monkeys; Overt and covert search; Parallel vs. serial; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRIMATES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 68049093894     PISSN: 02196352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219635209002101     Document Type: Article

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