The spatial window of the perceptual template and endogenous attention

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1257-1271

  Dosher, Barbara Anne ^a   Liu, Shiau Hua ^a   Blair, Nathaniel ^a   Lu, Zhong Lin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Masking; Observer models; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1842453130     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.01.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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