A feedback model of figure-ground assignment

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Domijan, Dražen ^a   Šetić, Mia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Attention; Boundary; Figure ground; Neural model; Saliency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 44449114642     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.7.10     Document Type: Article

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