Spatial biases and computational constraints on the encoding of complex local image structure

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1-13

  Taylor, Ryan R L ^a   Maddess, Ted ^a   Nagai, Yoshinori ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b KOKUSHIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attention; Computational modeling; Entropy; Isotrigon textures; Learning; Spatial statistics; Spatial vision; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 47549098348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.7.19     Document Type: Article

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