Selective visual attention ensures constancy of sensory representations: Testing the influence of perceptual load and spatial competition

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 3563-3574

  Wegener, Detlef ^a   Orlando Galashan, F ^a   Markowski, Dominique N ^a   Kreiter, Andreas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Attentional load; Human; Motion; Noise reduction; Psychophysics; Velocity

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33748425407     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.06.008     Document Type: Article

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