Foveal analysis and peripheral selection during active visual sampling

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Ludwig, Casimir J H ^a   Davies, J Rhys ^a   Eckstein, Miguel P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Classification image; Eye movement control; Perceptual decision making

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ATTENTION; CLASSIFICATION IMAGE; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; PERCEPTUAL DECISION-MAKING;

FIXATION, OCULAR; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; ROC CURVE; SACCADES; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84892594716     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313553111     Document Type: Article

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