A model of top-down attentional control during visual search in complex scenes

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Hwang, Alex D ^a   Higgins, Emily C ^a   Pomplun, Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Eye tracking; Informativeness; Real world scenes; Saccadic selectivity; Scene perception; Top down attentional control; Visual attention; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66449122208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.5.25     Document Type: Article

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