Attention activates winner-take-all competition among visual filters

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 375-381

  Lee, D K ^a   Itti, L ^a   Koch, C ^a   Braun, J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPETITION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033360355     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/7286     Document Type: Article

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