Learning pop-out detection: Building representations for conflicting target-distractor relationships

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 3095-3107

  Ahissar, Merav ^a   Laiwand, Roni ^a   Kozminsky, Gal ^a   Hochstein, Shaul ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Behavior; Detection; Learning; Modification; Perception; Psychophysics; Search; Training; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TRAINING; VISION;

ADULT; HEARING; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; ROTATION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031659251     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00449-5     Document Type: Article

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