Attention links sensing to recognition

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 114-126

  Rothenstein, Albert L ^a   Tsotsos, John K ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognitive vision; Recognition; Selective tuning

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER VISION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COGNITIVE VISION; NEUROBIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SELECTIVE TUNING;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 35748958748     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2005.08.011     Document Type: Article

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