The effects of bottom-up target luminance and top-down spatial target predictability on saccadic reaction times

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 197, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 321-335

  Marino, Robert A ^a,b   Munoz, Douglas Perry ^a,b,c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LUMINANCE; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; REDUCTION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SACCADIC REACTION TIME; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ANIMALS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; LIGHT; LINEAR MODELS; MACACA MULATTA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 68849095500     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-1919-x     Document Type: Article

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