Psychophysical tests of the hypothesis of a bottom-up saliency map in primary visual cortex

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 616-633

  Zhaoping, Li ^a   May, Keith A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP SALIENCIES; HORIZONTAL BARS; PERFORMANCE; PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA; PREFERRED FEATURES; PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX; PSYCHO-PHYSICAL TESTS; SALIENCY MAP; VISUAL SEARCH; VISUAL SEGMENTATION;

FORECASTING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34247554970     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030062     Document Type: Article

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