Attentional selection by distracter suppression

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 669-689

  Caputo, Giovanni ^a   Guerra, Sergio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Area V4; Attention; Complexity; Early late; Pop out; Spatial interactions; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLOR VISION; EYE FIXATION; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0032008589     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00189-2     Document Type: Article

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