Intrinsic and extrinsic contributions to heavy tails in visual foraging

Visual Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 809-842

  Rhodes, Theo ^a   Kello, Christopher T ^a   Kerster, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging; L vy walks; Power laws; Scene perception; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 84902787335     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2014.918070     Document Type: Article

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