Directional processing within the perceptual span during visual target localization

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1274-1282

  Greene, Harold H ^a   Pollatsek, Alexander ^b   Masserang, Kathleen ^b   Ju Lee, Yen ^a   Rayner, Keith ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Perceptual span; Visual search

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

CUES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77953139022     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.04.012     Document Type: Article

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