Top-down attention selection is fine grained

Journal of Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1180-1193

  Navalpakkam, Vidhya ^a,b   Itti, Laurent ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Feature; Gain; Granularity; Top down; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33750829764     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/6.11.4     Document Type: Article

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