Texture segregation by visual cortex: Perceptual grouping, attention, and learning

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 3173-3211

  Bhatt, Rushi ^a   Carpenter, Gail A ^a   Grossberg, Stephen ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART); Attentional shroud; Image segmentation; Object attention; Object recognition; Perceptual grouping; Spatial attention; Texture segregation; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUALITY CONTROL; SIMULATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 36049041601     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.07.013     Document Type: Article

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