Top-down attentional modulation of spatial frequency processing in scene perception

Visual Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 925-937

  Özgen, Emre ^a,b   Sowden, Paul T ^a   Schyns, Philippe G ^c   Daoutis, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 24644471877     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280444000580     Document Type: Article

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