Feature-specific interactions in salience from combined feature contrasts: Evidence for a bottom-up saliency map in V1

Journal of Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Koene, Ansgar R ^a,b,c   Zhaoping, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Feature combinations; Feature contrast; Reaction time; Salience; Salience map; V1

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34249277812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/7.7.6     Document Type: Article

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