Attentional states and the degree of visual adaptation to gratings

Neural Networks

Volumn 17, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 849-860

  Festman, Yariv ^a   Ahissar, Merav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attention; Contrast threshold elevation; Gratings; Neural population; Orientation tuning; Pattern adaptation; Psychophysics; Spatial frequency selectivity; Tilt aftereffect

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; OPTICS;

SINUSOIDAL GRATINGS; VISUAL ADAPTATIONS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXAMINATION; GRATING; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4344583575     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2004.02.006     Document Type: Article

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