Manual responses to visual stimuli: early and late facilitatory effects due to the offset of a peripheral cue

Manual and saccadic reaction times (MRTs and SRTs) are reduced when a warning signal precedes the onset of a target. The decreasing on SRTs observed after the offset of a fixation point has been called the gap effect. Different theories have been proposed to explain it. According to some authors, th...

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Main Authors: Machado-Pinheiro Walter, Gawryszewski Luiz G., Pereira Jr. Antônio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Conselho Brasileiro de Oftalmologia 2003-01-01
Series:Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-27492003000600013