Attention, segregation, and textons: Bridging the gap between object-based attention and texton-based segregation

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 845-860

  Ben Shahar, Ohad ^a   Scholl, Brian J ^b   Zucker, Steven W ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Curvature; Divided attention; Object based attention; Orientation gradients; Textons; Texture segregation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COST; EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OBJECT BASED ATTENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; TEXTON BASED SEGREGATION; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 33847314170     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.10.019     Document Type: Article

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