Variability of eye movements when viewing dynamic natural scenes

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Dorr, Michael ^a   Martinetz, Thomas ^a   Gegenfurtner, Karl R ^b   Barth, Erhardt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active vision; Eye movements; Structure of natural images

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 79955142718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.10.28     Document Type: Article

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