The spread of attention and learning in feature search: Effects of target distribution and task difficulty

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 10-12, 2000, Pages 1349-1364

  Ahissar, Merav ^a   Hochstein, Shaul ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attention; Feature search; Learning; Perception; Pop out

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EYE FIXATION; EYE POSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033998947     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00002-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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