Cognitive control of fixation duration in visual search: The role of extrafoveal processing

Visual Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 610-634

  Reingold, Eyal M ^a   Glaholt, Mackenzie G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Fixation duration; Parafoveal preview; Peripheral vision; Top down; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXTRAFOVEAL PROCESSING; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RETINA FOVEA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 84898023810     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2014.881443     Document Type: Article

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