The influence of synesthesia on eye movements: No synesthetic pop-out in an oculomotor target selection task

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1193-1200

  Nijboer, Tanja C W ^a   Satris, Gabriela ^a   Stigchel, Stefan Van der ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Capture; Eye movements; Synesthesia; Target selection

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GRAPHEME COLOUR SYNESTHESIA; HUMAN; OCULOMOTOR TARGET SELECTION TASK; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLOR PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054872302     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.03.017     Document Type: Article

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