Eye movements in active visual search: A computable phenomenological model

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 285-307

  Keech, T D ^a   Resca, L ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REFERENCE VALUE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REFERENCE VALUES; SACCADES; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951895587     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.2.285     Document Type: Article

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