Using a filtering task to measure the spatial extent of selective attention

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1045-1064

  Palmer, John ^a   Moore, Cathleen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Attention switching; Contrast gain; Filtering paradigm; Spatial tuning functions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 67349098406     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.02.022     Document Type: Article

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