The importance of context information for the spatial specificity of gaze cueing

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 967-982

  Wiese, Eva ^a   Zwickel, Jan ^a   Müller, Hermann Josef ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Gaze cueing; Psychophysics; Spatial allocation of attention; Top down control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL FIELD; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879450973     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-013-0444-y     Document Type: Article

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