Saccadic context indicates information processing within visual fixations: Evidence from event-related potentials and eye-movements analysis of the distractor effect

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 54-62

  Graupner, Sven Thomas ^a   Pannasch, Sebastian ^a,b   Velichkovsky, Boris M ^a,c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c Kurchatov Research Center   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Distractor effect; Eye fixation related potentials; Modes of visual attention; Saccade amplitude; Visual fixation; Visual information processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953106750     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.01.013     Document Type: Article

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