Cultural diversity and saccade similarities: Culture does not explain saccade latency differences between Chinese and Caucasian participants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Knox, Paul C ^a   Wolohan, Felicity D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BENEVOLENCE; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HEDONISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SELF DIRECTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNIVERSALISM; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899413749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094424     Document Type: Article

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