Feature-based integration of orientation signals in visual search

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 10-12, 2000, Pages 1293-1300

  Baldassi, Stefano ^a   Burr, David C ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Orientation discrimination; Visual noise; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; NOISE; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034001213     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00029-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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