Oculometric variations during mind wandering

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Grandchamp, Romain ^a,b   Braboszcz, Claire ^a,b   Delorme, Arnaud ^a,b,c  

^a Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blinks; Classification; Gaze position; Mind wandering; Pupil size

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897596020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00031     Document Type: Article

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