Feature binding, attention and object perception

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1373, 1998, Pages 1295-1306

  Treisman, Anne ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Binding; Features; Object perception; Parietal lobes; Search

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032578272     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0284     Document Type: Article

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