The attentional field has a Mexican hat distribution

Vision Research

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1129-1137

  Müller, Notger G ^a   Mollenhauer, Maas ^a   Rösler, Alexander ^a   Kleinschmidt, Andreas ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Mexican hat; Perception; Surround inhibition; Task difficulty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 13544265402     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.11.003     Document Type: Article

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