Task-demands can immediately reverse the effects of sensory-driven saliency in complex visual stimuli

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Einhäuser, Wolfgang ^a,b   Rutishauser, Ueli ^a   Koch, Christof ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attention; Bottom up; Eye movements; Human; Salience; Top down

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 39749119941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.2.2     Document Type: Article

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