Attention enhances contrast sensitivity at cued and impairs it at uncued locations

Vision Research

Volumn 45, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1867-1875

  Pestilli, Franco ^a   Carrasco, Marisa ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast sensitivity; Cue automaticity; Limited resources; Transient covert attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 13244267901     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.01.019     Document Type: Article

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