The redundant-signals paradigm and preattentive visual processing

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 13, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 5279-5293

  Zehetleitner, Michael ^a   Muller, Hermann Josef ^a   Krummenacher, Joseph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coactivation; Dimension weighting account; Race model inequality; Redundant signals paradigm; Review; Saliency map

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; RETINA; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; PRIMATES; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 52049090569     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3080     Document Type: Review

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