Temporal tuning characteristics of the perceptual template and endogenous cuing of spatial attention

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1333-1350

  Lu, Zhong Lin ^a   Jeon, Seong Taek ^a   Dosher, Barbara Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Internal noise reduction; Masking; Mechanisms of attention, External noise exclusion; Stimulus enhancement; Temporal window

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1842505396     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2003.12.017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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