Early oculomotor capture by new onsets driven by the contents of working memory

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 1590-1597

  Mannan, Sabira K ^a   Kennard, Christopher ^a   Potter, Daniela ^b   Pan, Yi ^c   Soto, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attention; Eye movements; Oculomotor capture; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954314058     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.05.015     Document Type: Article

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