Simulated loss of foveal vision eliminates visual search advantage in repeated displays

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Geringswald, Franziska ^a   Baumgartner, Florian ^a   Pollmann, Stefan ^a,b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial scotoma; Contextual cueing; Visual attention; Visual memory; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL SCOTOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPLAY SYSTEM; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RETINA MACULOPATHY; SIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 84933675110     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00134     Document Type: Article

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