Control of fixation duration during scene viewing by interaction of foveal and peripheral processing

Journal of Vision

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Laubrock, Jochen ^a   Cajar, Anke ^a   Engbert, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Fixation durations; Scene perception; Spatial frequencies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA FOVEA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TIME; YOUNG ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; FIXATION DURATIONS; SCENE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MALE; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; FIXATION DURATIONS; SCENE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCIES;

EID: 84886254337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/13.12.11     Document Type: Article

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