A dynamic model of how feature cues guide spatial attention

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 501-521

  Hamker, Fred H ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Computational model; Oculomotor circuits; Top down processing; Ventral pathway

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CALCULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0346219339     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2003.09.033     Document Type: Article

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