On the flexibility of sustained attention and its effects on a texture segmentation task

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-95

  Yeshurun, Yaffa ^a   Montagna, Barbara ^b   Carrasco, Marisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Covert attention; Spatial vision; Sustained attention; Texture segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; CUES; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 38549116680     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.10.015     Document Type: Article

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