Modelling the influence of central and peripheral information on saccade biases in gaze-contingent scene viewing

Visual Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 4-5, 2012, Pages 546-579

  Foulsham, Tom ^a   Kingstone, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational modelling; Eye movements; Saccades; Scene perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; GAZE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 84862233194     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2012.680934     Document Type: Article

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