Looking versus seeing: Strategies alter eye movements during visual search

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 543-549

  Watson, Marcus R ^a   Brennan, Allison A ^a   Kingstone, Alan ^a   Enns, James T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 77957280326     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.17.4.543     Document Type: Article

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