Combining top-down processes to guide eye movements during real-world scene search

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1-11

  Malcolm, George L ^a   Henderson, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Scene recognition; Search; Visual cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955485477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.2.4     Document Type: Article

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