Culture modulates eye-movements to visual novelty

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Goh, Joshua O ^a   Tan, Jiat Chow ^b   Park, Denise C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTENTION; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL BIAS; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OBJECT MANIPULATION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CULTURE; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; SACCADES; SINGAPORE; UNITED STATES; VISION, OCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949510609     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008238.g001     Document Type: Article

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