A theory of a saliency map in primary visual cortex (V1) tested by psychophysics of colour-orientation interference in texture segmentation

Visual Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 4-8, 2006, Pages 911-933

  Zhaoping, Li ^a   Snowden, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33745812085     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280500196035     Document Type: Article

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