Fixation positions after skipping saccades: A single space makes a large difference

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1556-1561

  Krügel, André ^a   Vitu, Françoise ^b   Engbert, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Motor control; Reading; Skipping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; READING; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84870799392     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0365-1     Document Type: Article

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