Microsaccades are diVerent from saccades in scene perception

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 203, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 753-757

  Mergenthaler, Konstantin ^a   Engbert, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fixational eye movements; Microsaccades; Scene perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956212961     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2272-9     Document Type: Article

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