On the control of visual fixation durations in free viewing of complex images

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1120-1132

  Pannasch, Sebastian ^a,b   Schulz, Johannes ^b   Velichkovsky, Boris M ^b,c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Institute of Cognitive Studies   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Distractor effect; Eye movements; Fixation duration; Modes of attention; Scene perception; Two visual pathways

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECOGNITION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SACCADES; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953086789     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0090-1     Document Type: Article

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