Effective processing of masked eye gaze requires volitional control

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 433-443

  Al Janabi, Shahd ^a   Finkbeiner, Matthew ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attentional shifts; Eye gaze; Masking; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASKED EYE GAZE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; VALIDITY; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLITIONAL CONTROL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856280856     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2944-0     Document Type: Article

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