The selective tuning model of attention: Psychophysical evidence for a suppressive annulus around an attended item

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 205-219

  Cutzu, Florin ^a   Tsotsos, John K ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attentional field; Inhibition; Neural network; Spatial attention; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0037231898     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00491-1     Document Type: Article

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