Crowding, feature integration, and two kinds of "attention"

Journal of Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 163-169

  Põder, Endel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Attention; Crowding; Feature integration; Salience

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; FACILITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTEGRATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33644774334     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/6.2.7     Document Type: Article

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