A robotics-based approach to modeling of choice reaching experiments on visual attention

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  Strauss, Soeren ^a   Heinke, Dietmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choice reaching task; Computational modeling; Robotics; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867131995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00105     Document Type: Article

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