Retinotopic sensitisation to spatial scale: Evidence for flexible spatial frequency processing in scene perception

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 6-7, 2006, Pages 1108-1119

  Ozgen, Emre ^a,b   Payne, Helen E ^b   Sowden, Paul T ^b   Schyns, Philippe G ^c  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional modulation; Channel; Hybrid; Retinotopic specificity; Scene perception; Spatial frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SENSITIZATION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 29544452951     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.07.015     Document Type: Article

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