Attention and the detection of masked radial frequency patterns: Data and model

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1363-1377

  Smith, Philip L ^a   Lee, Young Eun ^a   Wolfgang, Bradley J ^a   Ratcliff, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Radial frequency masking; Shunting equation; Spatial cuing; Visual masking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; CUES; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349219412     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.04.024     Document Type: Article

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