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TASK
visual pursuit/tracking
Subjects view a moving target(s) and track its movement across the screen. Frequently, stimuli are moving dots.

Synonyms: tracking task


Definition contributed by MLewis about a week ago.

Task Conditions

No conditions have yet been associated.
Task Indicators

accuracy


frequency of saccades


eye movements



Task records: 3  
selective attention
  • path of eye movements
  
visual attention
  • d' (difference between correct identifications and false alarms)
  
visual search
  • path of eye movements
  

NPicchetti Initial definition from the BrainMapLex.xls file located in the documentation section of: http://brainmap.org/scribe/index.html
about one year ago

Revision 3

Definition contributed by RPoldrack about four months ago:
Subjects view a moving target(s) and track its movement across the screen. Frequently, stimuli are moving dots.

Revision 2

Definition contributed by BGregory about one year ago:
Subjects view a moving target(s) and track its movement across the screen. Frequently, stimuli are moving dots.

Revision 1

Definition contributed by BGregory about one year ago:
Subjects view a moving target(s) and track its movement across the screen. Frequently, stimuli are moving dots. (from the BrainMapLex.xls file located in the documentation section of: http://brainmap.org/scribe/index.html)

View Term Event Log
Attentional resources in visual tracking through occlusion: the high-beams effect.
Flombaum JI, Scholl BJ, Pylyshyn ZW
Cognition (Cognition)
2008 Jun
Open Abstract | Citation Profile
Development of smooth pursuit eye movements in very prematurely born infants: 2. The low-risk subgroup.
Grönqvist H, Brodd KS, Rosander K
Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) (Acta Paediatr)
2011 Jul
Open Abstract | Citation Profile



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