Attentional control of spatial scale: Effects on self-organized motion patterns

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 3743-3758

  Hock, Howard S ^a   Balz, Gunther W ^a   Smollon, William ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Counterphase; Motion patterns; Motion perception; Self organization; Spatial filters; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 0031661182     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00023-6     Document Type: Article

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