Fixation disengagement enhances peripheral perceptual processing: Evidence for a perceptual gap effect

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 201, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 631-640

  Huestegge, Lynn ^a   Koch, Iring ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Gap effect; Peripheral letter perception; Premotor theory of attention; Saccades

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951093686     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-2080-2     Document Type: Article

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