Perceptual consequences of feature-based attention

Journal of Vision

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 622-631

  Lu, Jianwei ^a   Itti, Laurent ^a,b  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Dual task; Feature based attention; Human psychophysics; Top down

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEATURE BASED ATTENTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 27244441941     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/5.7.2     Document Type: Article

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