Attention mechanisms for multi-location first- and second-order motion perception

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 173-186

  Lu, Zhong Lin ^a   Liu, Christine Qi ^a   Dosher, Barbara Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrent paradigm; External noise exclusion; First order motion; Internal noise suppression; Perceptual template model; Second order motion; Stimulus enhancement; Third order motion; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELECTIVE ATTENTION;

EID: 0033990477     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00172-8     Document Type: Article

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