Visual search guidance is best after a short delay

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 535-545

  Schmidt, Joseph ^a   Zelinsky, Gregory J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consolidation; Eye movements; Target representation; Visual search guidance; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; CUES; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79952709076     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.01.013     Document Type: Article

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