Visually guided pointing movements are driven by the salience map

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-18

  Zehetleitner, Michael ^a   Hegenloh, Michael ^a   Müller, Hermann J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active vision; Attention; Search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FINGERS; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955973971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.1.1     Document Type: Article

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