Asymmetries in the direction of saccades during perception of scenes and fractals: Effects of image type and image features

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 779-795

  Foulsham, Tom ^a   Kingstone, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Scene perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; ROTATION; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77950520963     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.01.019     Document Type: Article

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