The implementation of visual routines

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 10-12, 2000, Pages 1385-1411

  Roelfsema, Pieter R ^a   Lamme, Victor A F ^a,b   Spekreijse, Henk ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Binding; Contour integration; Curve tracing; Elemental operations; Firing rate modulations; Object based attention; Perceptual organization; Texture segregation; Visual routines; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; COLOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; FEEDBACK; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION DISPARITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033993827     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00004-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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