Time course of target recognition in visual search

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kotowicz, Andreas ^a,b   Rutishauser, Ueli ^a   Koch, Christof ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Confidence judgement; Eye movements; Object recognition; Psychophysics; Top down attention; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 79953002686     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00031     Document Type: Article

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