Awareness of the saccade goal in oculomotor selection: Your eyes go before you know

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 861-871

  van Zoest, Wieske ^a   Donk, Mieke ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Awareness; Oculomotor capture; Saccade goal; Saccadic eye movements; Saliency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULOMOTOR SELECTION; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SALIENCY; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149499915     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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