Reconsidering Yarbus: A failure to predict observers' task from eye movement patterns

Vision Research

Volumn 62, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-8

  Greene, Michelle R ^a,b,c   Liu, Tommy ^a   Wolfe, Jeremy M ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Multivariate pattern classification; Task; Yarbus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFIER; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859918194     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.03.019     Document Type: Article

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