Attentional selection of overlapped shapes: A study using brief shape aftereffects

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 549-561

  Suzuki, Satoru ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Aftereffect; Aspect ratio; Attention; Convexity; Overlapped shape

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0037366395     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00683-1     Document Type: Article

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