Position representations lag behind targets in multiple object tracking

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 1907-1919

  Howard, Christina J ^a,b,c   Masom, David ^b   Holcombe, Alex O ^c  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Motion; Multiple object tracking; Position perception; Spatial vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; MULTIPLE OBJECT TRACKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052158859     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.07.001     Document Type: Article

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