Human visual search does not maximize the post-saccadic probability of identifying targets

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Morvan, Camille ^a,b   Maloney, Laurence T ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIZE SEPARATION;

BAYESIAN; CRITICAL VALUE; HUMAN OBSERVERS; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; HUMAN VISUAL; INFORMATION GATHERING DEVICES; MOST LIKELY; SEARCH TASKS; SIMPLE++; VISUAL SEARCH;

EYE MOVEMENTS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETINA;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETINA; SACCADES;

EID: 84860800946     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002342     Document Type: Article

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