Isoluminant stimuli and red background attenuate the effects of transient spatial attention on temporal resolution

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1375-1387

  Yeshurun, Yaffa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Isoluminance; Magnocellular; Parvocellular; Temporal resolution; Transient attention

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; COLOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; GIANT CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LUMINANCE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ATTENTION; CELL SIZE; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; LIGHT; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1842452966     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2003.12.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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