Predicting visual search performance by quantifying stimuli similarities

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Avraham, Tamar ^a   Yeshurun, Yaffa ^b   Lindenbaum, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous distractions; Target distractor similarity; Visual attention modeling; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 42249114195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.4.9     Document Type: Article

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