Attention in natural scenes: Neurophysiological and computational bases

Neural Networks

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1383-1394

  Rolls, Edmund T ^a   Deco, Gustavo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attention; Biased competition; Inferior temporal visual cortex; Natural scenes; Receptive field size

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

BIASED COMPETITION; BINDING PROBLEM; COMPUTATIONAL BASES; INFERIOR TEMPORAL VISUAL CORTEX; NATURAL SCENES; RECEPTIVE FIELD SIZE;

NEUROLOGY;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA FOVEA; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THEORETICAL STUDY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; NATURAL SCIENCES; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33750834545     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2006.08.007     Document Type: Article

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