Attentional resources in visual tracking through occlusion: The high-beams effect

Cognition

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 904-931

  Flombaum, Jonathan I ^a   Scholl, Brian J ^a   Pylyshyn, Zenon W ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inhibition; Multiple object tracking; Object persistence; Object based attention; Occlusion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; EYELID CLOSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MECHANICAL PROBE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ATTENTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 42249098493     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.12.015     Document Type: Article

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