Visual search for transparency and opacity: Attentional guidance by cue combination?

Journal of Vision

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 257-274

  Wolfe, Jeremy M ^a   Birnkrant, Randall S ^a   Kunar, Melina A ^a   Horowitz, Todd S ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cue combination; Opacity; Surface perception; Transparency; Visual attention; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUMINANCE; MOTION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ATTENTION; CUES; HUMANS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 27344438315     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/5.3.9     Document Type: Article

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