The insistence of vision: Why do people look at a salient stimulus when it signals target absence?

Visual Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1122-1157

  Myers, Christopher W ^a   Gray, Wayne D ^b   Sims, Chris R ^c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Endogenous; Exogenous; Ideal performer model; Saccadic reaction time; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84855699657     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2011.614379     Document Type: Article

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