Fixation duration surpasses pupil size as a measure of memory load in free viewing

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages

  Meghanathan, Radha Nila ^a   van Leeuwen, Cees ^a   Nikolaev, Andrey R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attention; Eye movements; Fixation duration; Memory load; Processing load; Pupil size; Visual search; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PUPIL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84933678691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.01063     Document Type: Article

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