The visual analog: Evidence for a preattentive representation across saccades

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Germeys, Filip ^a,b   De Graef, Peter ^a   Van Eccelpoel, Caroline ^a   Verfaillie, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Campus Parnas   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attention; Eye movements; Memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MEMORY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79952641898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.10.9     Document Type: Article

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