The spatial distribution of visual attention

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1273-1296

  Gobell, Joetta L ^a,c   Tseng, Chia Huei ^a   Sperling, George ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution of attention; Endogenous; Split attention; Sustained; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1842609951     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.01.012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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