Relative contributions of 2D and 3D cues in a texture segmentation task, implications for the roles of striate and extrastriate cortex in attentional selection

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1-22

  Zhaoping, Li ^a   Guyader, Nathalie ^b   Lewis, Alex ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Goldman Sachs Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Bottom up attention; Depth perception; Psychophysics; Saliency map; Top down; V1 saliency hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 70450192731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.11.1     Document Type: Article

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