Adaptive deployment of spatial and feature-based attention before saccades

Vision Research

Volumn 85, Issue , 2013, Pages 26-35

  White, Alex L ^a   Rolfs, Martin ^a,b,c,d   Carrasco, Marisa ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Feature based attention; Intertrial effects; Motion perception; Pre saccadic attention; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEATURE BASED ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL ATTENTION; VISION; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883792315     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.10.017     Document Type: Article

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