Eyes wide open: Enhanced pupil dilation when selectively studying important information

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 232, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 337-344

  Ariel, Robert ^a   Castel, Alan D ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Metacognition; Pupil dilation; Selective encoding; Value directed remembering

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMORY; MYDRIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; RECALL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PUPIL; VIRUS PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891857236     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3744-5     Document Type: Article

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