The time course of selective visual attention: Theory and experiments

Vision Research

Volumn 42, Issue 27, 2002, Pages 2925-2945

  Deco, Gustavo ^a   Pollatos, Olga ^b   Zihl, Josef ^b,c  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SPACE; THEORY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036890953     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00358-9     Document Type: Article

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