How are eye fixation durations controlled during scene viewing? Further evidence from a scene onset delay paradigm

Visual Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 6-7, 2009, Pages 1055-1082

  Henderson, John M ^a   Smith, Tim J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye movement; Fixation duration; Gaze control; Naturalistic scene; Onset delay; Real world scene

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 70349922230     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280802685552     Document Type: Article

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