The anti-orienting phenomenon revisited: Effects of gaze cues on antisaccade performance

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 221, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 385-392

  Wolohan, Felicity D A ^a   Crawford, Trevor J ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antisaccades; Attention; Eye gaze; Eye movements; Gaze cueing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866045080     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3180-y     Document Type: Article

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