Spatial statistics and attentional dynamics in scene viewing

Journal of Vision

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-17

  Engbert, Ralf ^a   Trukenbrod, Hans A ^a   Barthelmé, Simon ^b,c   Wichmann, Felix A ^d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Eye movements; Modeling; Saccades; Scene perception; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OCULOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921630739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/15.1.14     Document Type: Article

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