The different stages of visual recognition need different attentional binding strategies

Brain Research

Volumn 1225, Issue , 2008, Pages 119-132

  Tsotsos, John K ^a,b   Rodríguez Sánchez, Antonio J ^a,b   Rothenstein, Albert L ^a,b   Simine, Eugene ^a,b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Feature binding; Recognition; Recurrent process; Selective Tuning; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NETWORK LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ALGORITHMS; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 48349100576     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.05.038     Document Type: Article

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