Attentional trade-offs maintain the tracking of moving objects across saccades

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2220-2231

  Szinte, Martin ^a   Carrasco, Marisa ^b   Cavanagh, Patrick ^c   Rolfs, Martin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Remapping; Saccades; Tracking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRIGHTNESS; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84982074598     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00966.2014     Document Type: Article

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