Selective attention to the color and direction of moving stimuli: Electrophysiological correlates of hierarchical feature selection

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 191-206

  Anllo Vento, Lourdes ^a,b   Hillyard, Steven A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0030074373     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211875     Document Type: Article

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