Temporal consistency is currency in shifts of transient visual attention

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Kristjánsson, Árni ^a   Eyjólfsdóttir, Katrín Ósk ^a   Jónsdóttir, Anna ^a   Arnkelsson, Gudmundur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL REFLEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; ATTENTION;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 78149440197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013660     Document Type: Article

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