Cultural Adaptation of Visual Attention: Calibration of the Oculomotor Control System in Accordance with Cultural Scenes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Ueda, Yoshiyuki ^a   Komiya, Asuka ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; JAPANESE; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UNITED STATES; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTENTION; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; YOUNG ADULT;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 84869852028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050282     Document Type: Article

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