Averaging is not everything: The saccade global effect weakens with increasing stimulus size

Vision Research

Volumn 62, Issue , 2012, Pages 108-115

  Van der Stigchel, S ^a   Heeman, J ^a   Nijboer, T C W ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Global effect; Oculomotor selection; Saccades

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SIZE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860194806     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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