Eye movements reveal the time-course of anticipating behaviour based on complex, conflicting desires

Cognition

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 179-196

  Ferguson, Heather J ^a   Breheny, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse processing; Eye movements; Theory of Mind; Visual world paradigm

Indexed keywords

ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHARACTER; COGNITION; CONFLICT; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952814080     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.01.005     Document Type: Article

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