Saccade control in natural images is shaped by the information visible at fixation: Evidence from asymmetric gaze-contingent windows

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 266-283

  Foulsham, Tom ^a   Teszka, Robert ^a   Kingstone, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Eye movements; Natural vision; Saliency; Scene perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951957010     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-010-0014-5     Document Type: Article

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