Saliency and scan patterns in the inspection of real-world scenes: Eye movements during encoding and recognition

Visual Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 6-7, 2009, Pages 812-834

  Underwood, Geoffrey ^a   Foulsham, Tom ^a   Humphrey, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Domain knowledge; Eye movements; Saliency; Scanpaths; Scene perception

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SALIENCE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL SUMMATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 70549085860     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280902771278     Document Type: Article

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