Binding hardwired versus on-demand feature conjunctions

Visual Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 103-119

  VanRullen, Rufin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Attention; Competition; Feed forward model; Natural scenes; Preattentive recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; STIMULUS; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 58649123382     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280802196451     Document Type: Article

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