It's all about the transient: Intra-saccadic onset stimuli do not capture attention

Journal of Eye Movement Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Mathôt, Sebastiaan ^a   Theeuwes, Jan ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attentional capture; Change blindness; Novel object; Saccadic suppression; Trans saccadic integration; Visual stability; Visual transient

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916605942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19958692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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