The interaction between memorized objects and abrupt onsets in oculomotor capture

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1768-1779

  Wong, Jason H ^a,b   Peterson, Matthew S ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abrupt onsets; Oculomotor capture; Saccade programming; Visual object working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961204784     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0136-4     Document Type: Article

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