Salience from feature contrast: additivity across dimensions

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 10-12, 2000, Pages 1183-1201

  Nothdurft, Hans Christoph ^a  

^a Visual Perception Laboratory VPL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color contrast; Conspicuousness; Contextual modulation; Luminance contrast; Motion contrast; Orientation contrast; Popout; Psychophysics; Summation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STIMULUS; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0034004665     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00031-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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