Fitts's Law and speed/accuracy trade-offs during sequences of saccades: Implications for strategies of saccadic planning

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 2142-2157

  Wu, Chia Chien ^a   Kwon, Oh Sang ^b   Kowler, Eileen ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Fitts's Law; Latency accuracy trade off; Saccades; Saccadic latency; Saccadic planning; Saccadic sequences; Speed accuracy trade off

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TIME; VELOCITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 77956651769     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.08.008     Document Type: Article

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