When do microsaccades follow spatial attention?

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 683-694

  Laubrock, Jochen ^a   Kliegl, Reinhold ^a   Rolfs, Martin ^a,b   Engbert, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 77955286092     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.3.683     Document Type: Article

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